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Soft Brick!!!! Please Help

(ADDED $20 BOUNTY IF YOU HELP ME, WILL PAYPAL YOU WITHIN 24 HOURS)
Hey guys,
I've been flashing ROMS for years and this is my first real issue.
I tried to upgrade from an earlier version of CM10 to the newest one. After I flashed GAPPS this caused the phone to get stuck on reboot so I went back to CWM recovery.
ALL MY DOWNLOADED FILES WERE GONE IN CWM. Including all the roms I had, and my NANDROID backup (which I would have just reflashed right there).
I tried to Odin back to stock and it passes but gets stuck on the Samsung boot logo every time.
I've tried to scour threads on XDA and on Google. The closest thing I found was a thread where it mentioned I'd need Tmobile Bootchain commands but I can't find those either.
All help is greatly appreciated.

Have you tried to Odin using a different computer.. or redownload Odin and the files needed
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Odin the stock firmware you mean from a different comp? I don't think that is the issue since Odin shows that the flash was successful. The phone reboots itself and it gets passed the Samsung Galaxy S3 screen to the Tmobile Android 4g boot animation.
Additionally, people in the Verizon S3 forum are describing my issue exactly here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030)

SeanFloyd said:
(ADDED $20 BOUNTY IF YOU HELP ME, WILL PAYPAL YOU WITHIN 24 HOURS)
Hey guys,
I've been flashing ROMS for years and this is my first real issue.
I tried to upgrade from an earlier version of CM10 to the newest one. After I flashed GAPPS this caused the phone to get stuck on reboot so I went back to CWM recovery.
ALL MY DOWNLOADED FILES WERE GONE IN CWM. Including all the roms I had, and my NANDROID backup (which I would have just reflashed right there).
I tried to Odin back to stock and it passes but gets stuck on the Samsung boot logo every time.
I've tried to scour threads on XDA and on Google. The closest thing I found was a thread where it mentioned I'd need Tmobile Bootchain commands but I can't find those either.
All help is greatly appreciated.
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After a successful odin flash boot into stock recovery manually and select wipe data, factory reset, then wipe cache partition. Reboot, bingo.
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neysito said:
After a successful odin flash boot into stock recovery manually and select wipe data, factory reset, then wipe cache partition. Reboot, bingo.
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I can't get into stock recovery man, or any kind of recovery.Holding vol up + home + power hangs permanently after the SGS 3 boot screen, nothing happens.

Go to Doc's stickie and I think it is in the 2nd post, there is an Odin flashable version of TWRP (maybe a copy of CWR but since I don't use it I'm not sure).
Flash that and let it "try" and reboot. It won't but you can do the key combo to get into TWRP recovery and either flash a ROM, Restore or at the very least Factory Reset, which would be my first choice.
Somewhere back there in your efforts, I think you may have erased your internal and if that is where your backups were kept then that might be why they are gone. Just a thought though.

In odin, uncheck auto reboot. Flash the recovery tar in pda spot. When it says pass, pull the battery and boot into recovery with volume up, home, and power. Release the power button when u feel the vibrate. Then thank mrmako777 for teaching me this tonight
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You are the mf'in man. This is what fixed my phone. Give me your email so I can paypal you $20.
To anyone who can't get into recovery if you mess up your phone with the wrong GAPPS, this method is the only thing that worked for me.

SeanFloyd said:
To anyone who can't get into recovery if you mess up your phone with the wrong GAPPS, this method is the only thing that worked for me.
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Glad you had it all worked out.
This is exactly what was suggested to you before, since you said in your OP you had already odin back to stock. What I don't get is how come you were not able to boot into original recovery when it was just going on a boot loop. It doesn't matter. At least you fixed it. Enjoy
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neysito said:
Glad you had it all worked out.
This is exactly what was suggested to you before, since you said in your OP you had already odin back to stock. What I don't get is how come you were not able to boot into original recovery when it was just going on a boot loop. It doesn't matter. At least you fixed it. Enjoy
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My bad man, I quoted the wrong reply. Here is what fixed it.
GalaxyS3Guy said:
In odin, uncheck auto reboot. Flash the recovery tar in pda spot. When it says pass, pull the battery and boot into recovery with volume up, home, and power. Release the power button when u feel the vibrate. Then thank mrmako777 for teaching me this tonight
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Custom recovery.

Hi, guys
For some time didn't visit the site. Now bought T-mo S4 M-919.
Last 3 days running sleep deprived LOL. Trying to install either CWM, CWM-touch, TWIRP.... ANYTHING!!!!
Used Odin 3.07, 1.85, operation completes in 2.03 minutes and yellow square on the top of Odin menu says PASS.
Then again, booting into recovery and getting recovery (3e), stock I assume.
D-loaded all drives, Kies, whatever was suggested in several posts. Read and searched for 3 days, eyes are bleeding already... LOL
Installed custom recoveries on multiple devices HD2, Asus Transformer, dreaded Viewsonic G-tab, HTC Sensation 4g...
Never had such a tough time.
What am I doing wrong? Did anyone else had such a problem?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
Tester.

Are you rooted? You could try installing from Rom Manager app itself.

Thanks.
stevessvt said:
Are you rooted? You could try installing from Rom Manager app itself.
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Thank you for your fast response.
I read somewhere to disable auto-reboot in Odin and turn off the phone by pulling the battery.
So, I tried it and it WORKED!!!!!
Now I'm with CWM and rooted!!!! And Happy!!
Thanks again.
Tester.

Tester30 said:
Hi, guys
For some time didn't visit the site. Now bought T-mo S4 M-919.
Last 3 days running sleep deprived LOL. Trying to install either CWM, CWM-touch, TWIRP.... ANYTHING!!!!
Used Odin 3.07, 1.85, operation completes in 2.03 minutes and yellow square on the top of Odin menu says PASS.
Then again, booting into recovery and getting recovery (3e), stock I assume.
D-loaded all drives, Kies, whatever was suggested in several posts. Read and searched for 3 days, eyes are bleeding already... LOL
Installed custom recoveries on multiple devices HD2, Asus Transformer, dreaded Viewsonic G-tab, HTC Sensation 4g...
Never had such a tough time.
What am I doing wrong? Did anyone else had such a problem?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
Tester.
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Just flash a zip through recovery, it takes a couple of seconds...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43469920

Yeah sometimes it doesn't take the first time so you might have to do it a couple times.
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norml said:
Just flash a zip through recovery, it takes a couple of seconds...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43469920
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richardlibeau said:
Yeah sometimes it doesn't take the first time so you might have to do it a couple times.
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Thanks, guys!
Now I'm happy with my CWM, maybe later will install TWRP, I like more options in TWRP.
The goal right now is to figure out what bloatware is safe to remove without compromising performance and install all my old programs through the Titanium back up.
It means more reading... LOL.
Tester.

Some custom roms need to update recovery before a flash. How to update recovery without risk ?
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Tester30 said:
Thanks, guys!
Now I'm happy with my CWM, maybe later will install TWRP, I like more options in TWRP.
The goal right now is to figure out what bloatware is safe to remove without compromising performance and install all my old programs through the Titanium back up.
It means more reading... LOL.
Tester.
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Back up all the bloat with titanium.
Make a full nandroid backup of the rom.
Then delete anything you want. If it breaks restore it with titanium. If it really breaks do a full nandroid restore.
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jfernandezv said:
Some custom roms need to update recovery before a flash. How to update recovery without risk ?
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Say what now? What do you mean update recovery?
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[Q] NEED Help!!! Continual rebooting...

I've been on XDA for sometime but this has me frustrated. My note 3 keeps rebooting over and over. It will show the Note III screen then the Samsung screen and then the white with pink T-Mobile screen. After several seconds...it starts to reboot this same manner over and over. Every once and a while it will boot up to lock screen. When I swipe the screen it says that the system is not responding. It asked me do I want to wait or cancel. Eventually it just reboots and starts the process over and over. I have tried odin maybe 50 times. Tried kies. It will load the odin tar stock rom and say successful but the rebooting just starts again. I've tried a stock kernel and I tried the green compusion kernel. Please, if you have the knowledge to help, I would be very grateful. I've flashed roms and odined bricked devices for years...but this one has me stuck....Thanks ahead of time. It will go into download mode fine. It will go into recovery fine as well.
I have read the other threads and post similar to this one but they haven't help up to this point and do not seem ti be active anymore.

BACARDILIMON said:
What where you loading when phone went bad
NOTE 3
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I was on Darthstalker and was flashing Jedi Elite. I may have in the process also tried to restore a backup with efs. But...the problem was already occurring.

teknowiz23 said:
so i take it since you have flashed odin back to stock, you are getting stock recovery menu and not twrp or cwm right?
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I'm on stock recovery right now nut I have and can odin twrp easily. Yes I have backups but they don't load correctly either.

brojoe11 said:
I'm on stock recovery right now nut I have and can odin twrp easily. Yes I have backups but they don't load correctly either.
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k, when you odin back to stock are you using AP and CSC or just AP?
**and, are you using the stock tmo firmware off of sammy website or one for the root?

brojoe11 said:
I'm on stock recovery right now nut I have and can odin twrp easily. Yes I have backups but they don't load correctly either.
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Have you tried the complete restore function in Kies? Where you have to enter your Model & Serial number?

Using the stock downloaded from sammobile. And I have tried kies restor with the model and sn. It load perfectly on the phone just like odin but when the phone starts to boot up....it bootloops.
I just load the md5 file in PDA and hit start.

brojoe11 said:
Using the stock downloaded from sammobile. And I have tried kies restor with the model and sn. It load perfectly on the phone just like odin but when the phone starts to boot up....it bootloops.
I just load the md5 file in PDA and hit start.
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okay, have you tried using the AP and CSC in the de la vega root method instead? i would try that if you haven't.
** for your comvenience
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484223
if you can't get CSC and AP availability in odin,
close odin
open odin.ini
change csc and ap to =1 under {ButtonOption]
reopen odin and flash AP and CSC

teknowiz23 said:
okay, have you tried using the AP and CSC in the de la vega root method instead? i would try that if you haven't.
** for your comvenience
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484223
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I'll sure give it a shot. Thanks.

brojoe11 said:
I'll sure give it a shot. Thanks.
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good luck man, that's the situation we all slightly fear in the very depths of our mind when we are flashing.. that sucks. half the fun though lol..

teknowiz23 said:
good luck man, that's the situation we all slightly fear in the very depths of our mind when we are flashing.. that sucks. half the fun though lol..
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Fun once you get your heart settled back in your chest, realizing you may have just made a fancy paperweight.
Did you also try the steps here in post # 2?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467001

chstewart said:
Fun once you get your heart settled back in your chest, realizing you may have just made a fancy paperweight
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wouldn't know, hasn't happened to me yet. if there's one thing i've noticed with this stuff, is that it is very rare to permanently (although slightly possible via software/software-hardware conflicts) to brick a device unless you do something really stupid. i'm fairly confident that joe will get this working.

Thanks for all the confidence and the humor as well. Yeah, I've come close to bricking several devices. But usually with some great insight and help....they are "usually" restorable . Thanks guys. I'm downloading root de la vega files now...soon we shall see....
Thanks for the twrp thread link. I've flashed twrp several times...no problem..the problem is when the rom starts to load it just loops and loops and...

well...tried it...it loaded. came to tmobile screen then began looping again...unbelieveable....

brojoe11 said:
well...tried it...it loaded. came to tmobile screen then began looping again...unbelieveable....
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Reboot into stock recovery and wipe data and cache. That's power, home and volume up button to get into recovery.
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gforceriders said:
Reboot into stock recovery and wipe data and cache. That's power, home and volume up button to get into recovery.
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try twrp and restore previously working system or boot partition. i'd only try one at a time.
OOOOOORRRRRR
try reflashing stock kernel then wiping cache, dalvik, fix permissions.
if that don't work try a custom kernel then wipe cache, dalvik, and fix permissions.
i think you are one step closer.

Message came up and said "process system isn't responding" and then looped again....any more ideas?

brojoe11 said:
Message came up and said "process system isn't responding" and then looped again....any more ideas?
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k. restore a previously working system partition. preferably one from a stock rooted but whatever rom system should be worth a try.

brojoe11 said:
Message came up and said "process system isn't responding" and then looped again....any more ideas?
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I am telling you this happen to me. Just run Odin back to stock and reboot into recovery after and wipe data and cache. Even if your phone doesn't seem to go into download mode still run odin.
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gforceriders said:
I am telling you this happen to me. Just run Odin back to stock and reboot into recovery after and wipe data and cache. Even if your phone doesn't seem to go into download mode still run odin.
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You let it totally boot. then go into recovery and wipe data and cache right?
I restored system and then boot from a stock rooted backup. Still didn't work...So, I'll try the odin with stock and wipe data and cache...thanks guys. Maybe one of these will work.

brojoe11 said:
You let it totally boot. then go into recovery and wipe data and cache right?
I restored system and then boot from a stock rooted backup. Still didn't work...So, I'll try the odin with stock and wipe data and cache...thanks guys. Maybe one of these will work.
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No when you odin you should still have the boot loop. Then you can do a battery pull and reboot into stock recovery and wipe data and cache.
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[Q] Stuck at white AT&T load screen after trying to restore nandroid backup.

So I rooted my SG3, SGH-I747 last night. Took a bit of looking as I recently updated to 4.3 OTA which made the process more difficult than I remember in the past on this phone, but got it done. I then found a ROM to flash, but flash failed. Before flashing, I did take a nandroid backup using TWRP, but after attempting restore with it, on boot up it gets through the samsung logo and then just sits at the AT&T load screen. I have tried to go in and perform factory reset (wiping cache, dalvik and system), but nothing is working. I then downloaded 4.1.1 stock firmware for this device to flash via ODIN but I get a FAIL, and same result, stuck at AT&T screen. Did I brick my phone?????
Please Help!

You cannot downgrade after 4.3 flash stock 4.3 to repair
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Grizzle4185 said:
So I rooted my SG3, SGH-I747 last night. Took a bit of looking as I recently updated to 4.3 OTA which made the process more difficult than I remember in the past on this phone, but got it done. I then found a ROM to flash, but flash failed. Before flashing, I did take a nandroid backup using TWRP, but after attempting restore with it, on boot up it gets through the samsung logo and then just sits at the AT&T load screen. I have tried to go in and perform factory reset (wiping cache, dalvik and system), but nothing is working. I then downloaded 4.1.1 stock firmware for this device to flash via ODIN but I get a FAIL, and same result, stuck at AT&T screen. Did I brick my phone?????
Please Help!
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It Happened to me 2 days ago I am on Rogers. What i did i just flashed the update through Odin again and start from square one. It kept all my application and all my downloads . Good luck

zaky1 said:
It Happened to me 2 days ago I am on Rogers. What i did i just flashed the update through Odin again and start from square one. It kept all my application and all my downloads . Good luck
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What update are you speaking of? I tried to flash stock 4.1.1 but got FAIL message.

jimchee said:
You cannot downgrade after 4.3 flash stock 4.3 to repair
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Would you happen to have link to download this file?

All the files are located at sammobile.com just download the one for your carrier
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jimchee said:
All the files are located at sammobile.com just download the one for your carrier
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Okay, thanks for the help. Will try as soon as I can.

You can save the file quickly to cLoud and d/l at your leisure
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It's pCloud I really hate autocorrect
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Disable auto reboot in odin and try again..
After it says pass remove the battery for 10 sec and then reboot..
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Okay so I installed the stock 4.3 firmware, and it seemed that it was going to reboot, but does NOT boot up AT ALL.
Dammit.
Anything else I might be doing wrong?

Grizzle4185 said:
What update are you speaking of? I tried to flash stock 4.1.1 but got FAIL message.
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Do not flash anything from sammobile because you're on AT&T and they don't have the 4.3 files there. You already updated to 4.3 if you do happen to successfully flash something older through Odin you will have a paperweight for a phone.
Try to do a factory reset. And 4.3 takes a really long time to boot after a factory reset or fresh flash. You will think it is stuck just plug it in to the charger and come back in 10 minutes so you can not be impatient. Let it do its thing. When I Say a long time the last time (yesterday) I flashed a Rom (stock by loserskater) it took 4 minutes and 22 seconds to boot(I timed it had nothing better to do after hard bricking the phone for the third time in a week)
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Follow up on the issue.
Just so this thread didn't just stop, I wanted to give an update on my situation. Ended up hard tricking my phone and sent it off to get pba replaced. Should be getting it back soon, 70 dollars later.

Just happened
I tried to flash a new mod'd touchwiz launcher and tried to restore from a nandroid backup of dandroid.
After restoring stuck on boot logo.
Tried to wipe and restore again to no avail.
I put the rom back on the sd card and re-flashed and is up and working fine.
You might wanna try this (with your chosen rom).

I guess my Note 2 is bricked?

Well I give up... I have finally done something that I can not fix. I can normally google and find my own answers and I never have to ask anyone but this time is different.
I have the I317 Note 2, Everything was fine, I was running a stock rom earlier this week and the phone started acting funny. So I though screw it, Ill just go back to stock. So i downloaded.KIES_HOME_I317UCALJ2_I317ATTALJ2_215287_REV04_user_low_ship.tar and used Odin to flash the stock firmware. I DID do a full wipe before I went back to stock. It worked fine for 2 days. It kept wanting to download an update. So it did. When it restarted from the update that the phone downloaded it got stuck on the Samsung screen.
I thought no big deal, I will just reflash the stock firmware and start again... FAIL same thing happened. It wont get past the Samsung screen even after leaving it on that screen for a hour. So then I tried to get into recovery... it wont let me.Then I reinstalled the stock rom and waited for boot, then I flashed CWM and tried to get in to recovery that way. No luck.
I feel like I need to do a wipe and start all over but I cant figure out how to do a full wipe without recovery. There has got to be something easy that I am missing but I cant figure it out. I will keep on searching with hope that someone tells me what I am doing wrong or what to do.
THANKS

If its still able to go into download mode and odin recognizes the device your good just be patient and download the correct firmware.
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There are some issues with the OTA update from LJ2 to MH3, which it appears you still have sitting on your phone. You can try booting recovery and clearing cache - that should get rid of the OTA file.
The thread below has some information on how to update from LJ2 up through MH3 and then MK6. It's intended for those who already have the MK6 bootloader - if you don't already have that or want that, you'll want to stop at MH3 and consider your options.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447

Do you know did I use the correct firmware? I have had to run Odin a couple of times before but its a no go this time... I can not get into recovery. Even if I run Odin now with TWRP and restart it still wont let me into recovery... Can I use Odin to to a full wipe?

Were you on 4.3 previously? Via OTA?
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yes I did upgrade to 4.3 when it came available then I went to a custom rom. Then full wiped and downloaded what I thought was a stock rom and here I am.
Are you saying I need to download the 4.3 stock firmware and that is my issue. What i downloaded was from September 2013

For a (hopefully) quick solution, see post #2 here, specifically the param/tz file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
That should get your access to recovery back and allow the mh3 ota to complete.
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Trust in Odin it never fails.
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Zen Arcade said:
For a (hopefully) quick solution, see post #2 here, specifically the param/tz file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
That should get your access to recovery back and allow the mh3 ota to complete.
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WOW that worked!! I just got my phone into Recovery for the first time in over 24hrs now! I did a full wipe and now I am going to try and reinstall the factory rom that I have. Unless you tell me something different...
Thank you very much, I dont understand it but so happy to have a different screen!

Which factory rom? Where are you ultimately looking to get to?

100% back up and running! Thank you again

Zen Arcade said:
Which factory rom? Where are you ultimately looking to get to?
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One that would work.... LOL I really dont have a preference other then I did not care for 4.3 I ended up with 4.1.1 and I couldn't be more happy. If they ever get 4.4 I would try that.
Its funny 4yrs ago I had the Sprint Evo. I changed roms more often then I changed shirts it seamed. I never had the issues or anything like what I ran into yesterday. I was so careless just trying every rom that was released. Because of that I will always remember the EVO as my favorite phone.

Those were simpler times...
I assume you want root and know how to get it.
Since you have the mk6 bootloader you will need to avoid odin flashing any packages that contain bootloaders in the future. See my mk6 thread for details.
If you want to get to 4.1.2 there are rooted cwm packages for ma4, mc3, and mh3 available. Wherever you end up, I recommend freezing the AT&T Software Update apk from within Titanium Backup or equivalent to ensure that you don't get a forced ota update at some point in the future.
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