My I747M started acting strange and failing on installs from the play store. It had twrp 2.6.0.0 and cm10.2 on it.
I ran a nand restore and it didnt fix the issue, so I rebooted into twrp recovery mode and went to wipe everything except external sd since thats where my downloads are. It started then the phone rebooted instantly.
Now all i can get is it will boot to download mode, but oden never shows that its writing anything to the phone, the % stays at zero, if i unhook the usb cable it just says it couldn't detect the phone no matter how long I wait. kies does the exact same thing.
If I try to boot back into recovery mode in twrp it just shows the twrp screen then resets. If I try a normal boot it resets at the cm boot screen just before the animation screen.
is it bricked for good?
Update: I downloaded twrp and flashed using odin. thats the only thing that will flash in download mode, from twrp I can flash a rom and it boots up and the phone works.
In download mode kies see's but cant connect to my phone for a factory restore. odin see's and can flash but flashing anything other than the recovery just hangs.
In twrp when I try to restore a nandroid backup of rooted 4.1.2 touchwiz it just crashes and reboots the phone and I start with the original post issues.
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Hi guys,
My N7100 was rooted and has been working fine for almost a month now. I have flashed several custom ROMs and have had no issues.
Today I restarted the phone to recovery and the phone shows the initial blue TWRP screen and then goes back to show Samsung logo and this keeps on repeating over and over.. meaning, can't enter into the recovery mode.
I am able to enter in download mode though. Downloading 4.1.2 stock ROM for my country so I can hopefully flash it through ODIN.
If possible I would wish to retain the ROM that's on the phone and use it as before. Any idea as to why the phone can't enter into TWRP? Will it help if I flash CWM via ODIN and reboot the phone after entering CWM?
Flashed CWM via ODIN and rebooted. Back into my custom ROM.
Not sure why TWRP stopped working all of a sudden. Anyway, all is well now.
For anyone who may go through the same, here is the topic to download CWM from.
What I was trying to do: I have a stock 4.4.2 AT&T GS3 that I wanted to root, and then install Cyanogen Mod.
What I did: I flashed Auto-Root with Odin 3.10, restarted and then flashed TWRP 2.8. I then booted to TWRP and attempted to wipe/format the phone but it showed some errors along the way, I think it was something having to do being unable to mount the SD card. I then rebooted into recovery and flashed CM12 and slim Google Apps zip. When it was flashing both I got a string of errors but it said it was successful.
Where I'm at now: When I try turning the phone on (without holding any buttons down) it attempts to boot straight to the TWRP but gets stuck at the blue TeamWin screen. I'm able to get to download mode by holding down the appropriate buttons. I'm wondering if there's anything I can flash from Odin to resolve this.
I also realized I have unbacked up photos on the device, I don't think the format was successful, is there any way to recover those?
Thanks
To recover the pictures, try re-installing TWRP, boot into TWRP, and mount the partitions. Connect the phone to your computer and copy your pictures.
TWRP
I have had this happen before. Try using Odin to flash an older version of TWRP, uncheck reboot after flash and then when it is done, do a battery pull. This has gotten me back into a working TWRP to restore my previous setup. Note: You made need to go back to 2.6. Once you have gotten back up and running flash to the current TWRP with the app.
Hi there. Here I have my t989 with stable cm11 by Sultanxda and twrp 2.7.0.0 installed.
Everything was fine until I wanted to try 5.0.1.
I got into twrp and did the usual wipe and install ParanoidAndroid 5.0. It failed.
Ok stuff happens so I just went restore my backup no big deal.
Now when I reboot back my phone looks as it were before BUT it reboots after 2-3 minutes in every time it boots back up.
So I thought the power button has problem but soon I figured it is not because my phone won't self reboot in recovery and download mode.
I went back to twrp and try to wipe it clean and install cm11 instead of restoring to my previous backup.
Wipe says successful, install says successful, reboot system. And only to find myself still in my old Rom and nothing was wiped.
All my apps are still there blahblahblah. I tried to update my twrp through twrp manager but phone reboot before it finishes installing.
I grab my odiin and try to update recovery there. Odin says success. Goes to recovery only to find its still in 2.7.0.0
Download a stock .tar and flash it with Odin. Odin says success, boot up and still in my old cm11 rom...
Now I went out of option but ask for help. I have done flashing for 3 years with this phone and I have never gotten this problem before.
Please Help
Today I tried using the SkipSoft Toolkit to install a custom recovery and root my note 2. I followed the instructions (installed USB drivers) then i got to the part to install custom recovery with odin. At this point i noticed the program was failing to but my phone into download mode. Yet it was moving on and launching odin and pretending everything was ok. Even odin recognized the phone. I don't know what to do so i tried to flash twrp. It failed. I then manually went into download mode. Tried again and it failed. I closed everything. I manually launched odin and went into download mode and flashed twrp. This time it worked. After rebooting i went to recovery and i noticed it was stock recovery. SkipSoft warned me about some phones reflashing stock recovery and that i needed to flash a custom recovery and go into it before the phone boots then flash a permanentrecovery.zip file inside the custom recovery so it stayed that way.
I went into download mode again, i flashed twrp again, but i forgot to disable the auto-reboot setting. I quickly hold power+upvol+home to try to get into the recovery instead of booting normally. I don't know if that was the problem or something else, but my phone got stuck in a bootloop. I can't enter recovery and only download mode. I tried reflashing recovery with odin in download mode but i noticed it was getting stuck and the process didn't even start. I reinstalled the drivers and now my computer or odin are not even recognizing the phone anymore.
Any ideas on what the problem could be or how to fix this?
TL/DR: Phone stuck in bootloop, can't access recovery only download mode but computer doesn't recognize it even with the samsung drivers installed anymore.
It was the usb cable. Apparently usb cables that come with chargers are not good. Good to know.
Ok guys im in some really deap ****. This is what happend
I was trying to flash my SGH-T999 with cm-2xxxxxxNIGHTLY-d2lte to get the 4.4.4kitkat upgrade. Rooting with clockworkmod using Odin V1.85 was succesfull. I got into recovery mode, wiped data factory, /cache, and /delvik cache/ and i went on to install zip from sdcard. The installation failed, tried severals times and it still fails. And when i try switching it on, it boots with the SAMSUNG Logo and goes back off, then comes back on again with a "Recovery Booting" written on the top left hand corner of the screen, and then it boots into recovery mode. When i hit Reboot System, it does same thing. I have tried downloading the recovery but my SD-Card slot seems to be damage of which the recovery needs to be put on, and more so i cant detect if the memory card i install is ready or not.
Flash twrp to the phone. Cwm has not been updated for a while.
A few months ago I flashed TWRP 2.8.7.0 using Heimdall just fine, no problems. Now I've been trying to flash the latest TWRP 3.0.2, I can't seem to get it to boot, the flash is successful. Then I reflash the older version, and it's not booting into recovery. I'm not too familiar with Samsung phones, but I've been doing this for a long time on my Moto X 2014 using ADB/Fastboot, without issues.
I was able to return to stock firmware using Odin.