I was running Strongsteve's blue rom and wanted to update to his latest version, so I wiped my cache and delvik and used CWM to install. When I rebooted, the phone never got past the SGS2 boot screen. I took out the battery and rebooted a bunch of times with no luck. I was able to get back in to CWM by holding pwr and up, and I reflashed the rom with no luck. I had Blazer's rom on the internal drive already and flashed that, but it still hung at the SGS2 boot screen. Now, I can't get back in to CWM and I can't charge my phone. I can still get in to USB mode but i've never used it before.
I rooted using auto-root, and i'm going to try using ODIN but i'm not sure what i should flash on there if i can even get my computer to connect to my phone...another ROM, the stock ROM, zedomax root? any advice?
i think i'm gonna go with the stock rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479677) but not sure if there's other steps or things i should be doing instead...please help!
If you hold the power button + power down, can you boot into download mode?
yes...
i'm going to try odin but i'm not sure what file to flash...any thoughts?
Find the stock tar file in the epic 4g touch development. Someone just posted one not too lon ago. When you flashed the update did you follow all instructions to a t? I have run into similar problems because i thought skipling a step wouldnt matter.
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As long as you can get into download mode, you're good.
Use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383678
yeah i followed the instructions but something must have gone wrong. i'm going to try odin when i get home...i'll let you guys know how it goes. thanks!
one more question...do i need to flash the kernel too?
Keep in mind, if you flash the EL29 listed earlier, it will disable the reset ability of the USB jig (will still get you to ODIN D/L mode, just won't reset ODIN flash stats)
I suggest you flash the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature, but it is up to you.
mistatwo said:
one more question...do i need to flash the kernel too?
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No, not if u odin. The kernels in there
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fixed! used the el29 odin root method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101)
THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!
Just a quick question..
Can you avoid all the above steps if you do a nandroid restore? I thought if I just did a nandroid restore and reflash from scratch I should be goodl. I did a nandroid back up when I rooted with the stock ROM and figured if I ever ran into problems I could retore and start fresh? Am I thinking about this the right way or do I need to go through the steps above when/if I get stuck a the boot screen..thx
For all who like to flash. Get md5checker from the market.Use it love it. Never flash a bad ROM again. Saves alot of headaches and time. Not to mention clutter.
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pawmbi1 said:
Just a quick question..
Can you avoid all the above steps if you do a nandroid restore? I thought if I just did a nandroid restore and reflash from scratch I should be goodl. I did a nandroid back up when I rooted with the stock ROM and figured if I ever ran into problems I could retore and start fresh? Am I thinking about this the right way or do I need to go through the steps above when/if I get stuck a the boot screen..thx
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You are correct. As long as you have custom recovery.
btw it might have been a bad download. grab the md5 checker from the market like the guy above me a couple posts said. also redownload the rom if it is.
Phone stuck at logo screen
Hi, pls help..
Yesterday i have try to root my phone and today i have decided to restore to stock firmware.
As i didnt backup my files, and i try to restore by following this website from cnet.co.uk
after restore, my phone stuck at logo screen...
I can't turn off my phone nor entering download mode and boot screen.
:crying:
So I got a little too excited when I heard the CM9 nightly went up, and the fact some sources were saying ICS wasn't going to come out until July didn't help.
I followed the instructions in the thread, but due to a failure with the stock SD card. It didn't work. Now my phone is stuck on the LG logo.
Except when I got a new card, I was able to go into CWM recovery and flash CM9 again. (other ROMs won't seem to flash, the screen is blank. I didn't disable any apps)
But the flash is very corrupted. Everything is sluggish/non-responsive. (no matter what I do, changing the performance, new launcher, etc.)
I just want to go back to a stock ROM. I regret getting involved without spending a little more time and now my work is affected due to my phone not working.
What do I do to go back? Nothing else will flash properly. I just want to get rid of CWM, CM9, root, everything. I need my phone back. Sorry for sounding whiny, I've been trying to figure it out without having to clutter the board but I'm at my wits end.
Thanks for reading my wall of text, and your time. Please help.
-desperate LG Nitro HD P930 user
Before installing stock based roms in CWM you must return stock boot partition ( http://www.fileserve.com/file/85qrGE9 ).
For now you must:
1) intstall CM9 again with all possible wipes.
2) boot into CM9
3) copy boot.img downloaded by link above to sdcard
4) in terminal emulator type:
su
dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8
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5) reboot in CWM and install custom firmware (kernelpanic or hono) with all wipes (cache\system\data\dalwik cache)
6) profit
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If you want to return to full at&t stock you need to do few more steps... But I think you wouldn't
Hey, thanks for the easy instructions, I got everything to work but the ROMs are still unstable. Although the kernalpanic ROM has less issues. I really think it's a corrupted CWM recovery flash, and the OS has just gone to **** from all the flashing, reflash, hard factory reset, etc. Not sure, just a naive theory.
To be honest, I'm more than willing to take the extra steps to bring this back to stock. Been crawling the forums for a stock ROM but the links are broken and even if I do obtain it. I wouldn't know what to do with it.
Recently I just download a 1GB file called Unbrick from a forum member's dropbox, seems to have all the stock files but I'm lost from there.
EDIT:
Good news, I was able to revert everything and it seems everythings back to normal. I basically took your terminal instructions and did it to all the other stock .img and hoped for the best.
digitalsmiles said:
Good news, I was able to revert everything and it seems everythings back to normal. I basically took your terminal instructions and did it to all the other stock .img and hoped for the best.
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Yep, it's the only way back to fully stock right now. Don't forget to do factory reset by pressing volup+power while switching on if you flashed default recovery.img too.
FlintPNZ said:
Before installing stock based roms in CWM you must return stock boot partition ( http://www.fileserve.com/file/85qrGE9 ).
For now you must:
1) intstall CM9 again with all possible wipes.
2) boot into CM9
3) copy boot.img downloaded by link above to sdcard
4) in terminal emulator type:
5) reboot in CWM and install custom firmware (kernelpanic or hono) with all wipes (cache\system\data\dalwik cache)
6) profit
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If you want to return to full at&t stock you need to do few more steps... But I think you wouldn't
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H,
is this required if everything is operating smoothly but I want to restore the backup of my original ATT ROM via ROM manager while currently running cm9?
scott0 said:
H,
is this required if everything is operating smoothly but I want to restore the backup of my original ATT ROM via ROM manager while currently running cm9?
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No. I regularly have to go back to stock to do debugging, you only need to restore the backup.
Thanks aremcee
FlintPNZ said:
Yep, it's the only way back to fully stock right now. Don't forget to do factory reset by pressing volup+power while switching on if you flashed default recovery.img too.
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Didn't you mean vol down + power button to do a factory/hard reset?
Also, to the OP, did you have LTE after you went back to stock from CM9?
i'm restoring my original at&t rom to see if i still have lte with it. brb.........
I am running v6.0.1.4 and it won't do anything.
It wont backup, restore, or install, it just freezes.
If I try to run a factory reset or a dalvic cache wipe it freezes too.
Nothing is working and I can't even start my phone because I tried to restore it and again, it froze.
Can anyone help me out here at all? I have no clue what to do, and I really would appreciate the help.
spuzwuzzel said:
I am running v6.0.1.4 and it won't do anything.
It wont backup, restore, or install, it just freezes.
If I try to run a factory reset or a dalvic cache wipe it freezes too.
Nothing is working and I can't even start my phone because I tried to restore it and again, it froze.
Can anyone help me out here at all? I have no clue what to do, and I really would appreciate the help.
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Odin back to stock, or flash twrp and try that. Also this should not be in this section bud. Prepare to be flamed by the community
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I had the same thing happen to me when I updated to the latest one, it would freeze at either restoring, or wiping cache. Luckily I was able to just reboot, and everything was fine on the phone, I then downgraded to 5.XXX
I've been having the same issue on stock recovery, where it sometimes it freezes at wiping, then flash the one from rom manager and its all good. by the way mods please move the thread to Q/A
Wrong section bro. Please see the noob video.
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You don't have to Odin stock or any of that stuff, just fastboot flash the 6.0.0.5 version (or that last one that worked for you) and you should be fine.
spuzwuzzel said:
I am running v6.0.1.4 and it won't do anything.
It wont backup, restore, or install, it just freezes.
If I try to run a factory reset or a dalvic cache wipe it freezes too.
Nothing is working and I can't even start my phone because I tried to restore it and again, it froze.
Can anyone help me out here at all? I have no clue what to do, and I really would appreciate the help.
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Ok, don't panic. I've been having this twice a day every day for the past little while. I first started having this problem when I flashed MIUI JB, but very soon after every JB ROM out there started hanging on me, or killing my recovery in this fashion. It's fixable, though for the life of me I can't tell you what causes it.
Don't ODIN back to stock. Not yet anyway.
ODIN your very first recovery, just as if you are about to root your phone for the first time. ODIN CWM 5.0.2.7, not 6.0.1.4. Yes, it's ancient, I know. Catch your phone as it's rebooting after the flash, and get it to enter recovery. Don't let it boot into whichever ROM you have installed. Then go to MOUNT > MOUNT USB and attach your phone to the computer. Copy Darkside Superwipe over. Unmount from the computer and unmount from the phone. Then get CWM to run the script. You must superwipe your phone, so if you have something important, hope you have a backup. This time around it won't hang on you.
Your phone is recovered, you can now flash anything you want and it will work. You can restore your nondroid backup as well and this will also work. If your nandroid back is in the new CWM format, you will want to flash CWM v6 first. Feel free to flash whichever recovery works for you, but CWM 5.0.2.7 is your fallback recovery in case you need to recover your phone again. It is the only one that does not seem to get corrupted in this way.
You can ODIN back to stock now if you want to make absolutely sure everything is wiped clean, but in my experience this does not contribute much to the overall cleanliness of things: it's not called Superwipe for nothing. It doesn't hurt, though: as long as you do it AFTER you have superwiped, or not even ODIN will recover your phone. It really scared me once when I skipped the superwipe step and was left with a 100% stock phone which wouldn't boot.
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Careful with ODIN: Make sure you have NO PIT file selected, or you will kill your phone! Been there, done that, and I don't recommend it. Do it by the book!
kangelov said:
Ok, don't panic. I've been having this twice a day every day for the past little while. I first started having this problem when I flashed MIUI JB, but very soon after every JB ROM out there started hanging on me, or killing my recovery in this fashion. It's fixable, though for the life of me I can't tell you what causes it.
Don't ODIN back to stock. Not yet anyway.
ODIN your very first recovery, just as if you are about to root your phone for the first time. ODIN CWM 5.0.2.7, not 6.0.1.4. Yes, it's ancient, I know. Catch your phone as it's rebooting after the flash, and get it to enter recovery. Don't let it boot into whichever ROM you have installed. Then go to MOUNT > MOUNT USB and attach your phone to the computer. Copy Darkside Superwipe over. Unmount from the computer and unmount from the phone. Then get CWM to run the script. You must superwipe your phone, so if you have something important, hope you have a backup. This time around it won't hang on you.
Your phone is recovered, you can now flash anything you want and it will work. You can restore your nondroid backup as well and this will also work. If your nandroid back is in the new CWM format, you will want to flash CWM v6 first. Feel free to flash whichever recovery works for you, but CWM 5.0.2.7 is your fallback recovery in case you need to recover your phone again. It is the only one that does not seem to get corrupted in this way.
You can ODIN back to stock now if you want to make absolutely sure everything is wiped clean, but in my experience this does not contribute much to the overall cleanliness of things: it's not called Superwipe for nothing. It doesn't hurt, though: as long as you do it AFTER you have superwiped, or not even ODIN will recover your phone. It really scared me once when I skipped the superwipe step and was left with a 100% stock phone which wouldn't boot.
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Careful with ODIN: Make sure you have NO PIT file selected, or you will kill your phone! Been there, done that, and I don't recommend it. Do it by the book!
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what do you mean my very first recovery? Also, I'm not familiar with Odin, I just install it on my pc right?
Miui JB is what I did too. Love me some Miui, but too many bugs. I can't even find the ICS Miui anymore...
spuzwuzzel said:
what do you mean my very first recovery? Also, I'm not familiar with Odin, I just install it on my pc right?
Miui JB is what I did too. Love me some Miui, but too many bugs. I can't even find the ICS Miui anymore...
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Look, I'm sorry for your troubles but there is a good reason why we have four different sections. This thread being in DEVELOPMENT is only causing clutter. You will get much better help if its moved to its proper place, Q&A or general. Please PM a Mod to move this.
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spuzwuzzel said:
what do you mean my very first recovery? Also, I'm not familiar with Odin, I just install it on my pc right?
Miui JB is what I did too. Love me some Miui, but too many bugs. I can't even find the ICS Miui anymore...
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I am referring to the process you followed to install CWM on a stock phone. It didn't come with CWM already loaded, so you must have loaded it somehow. If not with ODIN, then what did you use?
kangelov said:
I am referring to the process you followed to install CWM on a stock phone. It didn't come with CWM already loaded, so you must have loaded it somehow. If not with ODIN, then what did you use?
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I dont really know where to find 5.0.2.7. the website doesnt seem to have it. I used revolutionary
Thank you for your contribution to the development of the gs2.
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Download the clock work mod app from playstore. Then your first choice after opening the apk, your first possible choice is flash cwm, do that. Pm me after that if you need help. he should be good now thanks
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Rushing said:
Download the clock work mod app from playstore. Then your first choice after opening the apk, your first possible choice is flash cwm, do that. Pm me after that if you need help. he should be good now thanks
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There is no clockworkmod app, unless you mean rom manager. At least, I can't find any. Also, I can't even get my rom to load at all
spuzwuzzel said:
There is no clockworkmod app, unless you mean rom manager. At least, I can't find any. Also, I can't even get my rom to load at all
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Now that you are in the right place, I will help you. It looks like you flashed a corrupted recovery. What you need to is Odin flash CWM. Go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27290471
Download Odin and recovery.tar, and Odin flash it. Will boot up just fine after. Don't fear Odin. Its safe as long as you are careful and READ!!
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LoopDoGG79 said:
Now that you are in the right place, I will help you. It looks like you flashed a corrupted recovery. What you need to is Odin flash CWM. Go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27290471
Download Odin and recovery.tar, and Odin flash it. Will boot up just fine after. Don't fear Odin. Its safe as long as you are careful and READ!!
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Ya Odin flash the recovery tar is probably the easiest way to go
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Odin is a tool used internally by Samsung. As such, you can't expect Samsung to write you a manual. Be very careful, you can cause a lot of damage with it. It is powerful, though: it can bring your phone back from the brink of death. Or it can take a healthy phone and send it over the edge. What you are doing now is something every rooter does on day 1, and only after days and days of research. I am uncomfortable with what you are going to do now given that you have never done this before, but you have no choice: it's this or a useless phone.
Here's the rundown:
A PIT file is something like the Master Boot Record of your harddisk. Problem is, the first partition is something like your computer's BIOS: it tells your phone how to bootstrap. It can bootstrap into the normal mode, which runs Android, or it can initiate Download mode. Download mode is what ODIN needs to replace parts or all of your phone's software. If something goes wrong with that bootloader, your phone is something called a hard brick: it won't power on, it won't even run Download mode so that you can recover it back to stock. It is dead. If that ever happens, you need something called a JTAG flash: you send your phone out somewhere, and someone takes it apart, hopefully carefully, plugs a programmer into an engineering port on your phone's logic board, and reprograms the bootloader back again). Now with PIT file having the major potential to trash things completely, you really have to pay attention you don't load the wrong one. Problem is, the ODIN you just downloaded DOES come with a PIT file, and that PIT file is WRONG for your device. Follow the instructions! Follow the instructions really really carefully. Don't check off extra things! Don't uncheck things that should be checked! Don't add PIT files! Make sure you load the right file to the right place in ODIN. Your phone depends on it.
ODIN will program your phone from scratch, but you wouldn't want to use it too often. It's a dangerous tool, as you can imagine, and it is meant to replace your phone's software, not maintain it! That's why we have Recovery. Recovery is what you use to do basic maintenance to Android, such as factory reset and clean cache and stuff. With those custom recoveries out there, you gain the added ability to flash custom ROMs and a few other things as well, which is what this forum is all about. So, step one in anyone seeking to root their phone is, flash a custom recovery using ODIN, since you need Download mode for that. In an ideal world, you will never need to use ODIN again after you flash your custom recovery. Well, in the real world, you should needed it only very infrequently.
Your phone first got its custom recovery from a tool designed to automate things for you, and sent you flashing without ever giving you an idea how your phone works. Now you don't know how to recover your phone from a flash gone wrong: in the long run that tool did not do any favours to you. The steps I gave you will bring your phone back to life, it brought mine several times already. Something about those new JB ROMs corrupts every recovery I have tried. I don't know why, I don't know how, but it does it. To make matters worse, ODIN without a proper PIT file cannot repartition your phone and fix whatever mess caused the problem to begin with, so restoring stock directly won't do the trick, you need to flash custom recovery, to fix recovery, and then Superwipe to recreate and realign your system, data and cache partitions: that's a good chunk of your phone. So, after you do this, you should be back in business. From beginning to end, if you know what you are doing, the entire process should not take more than 30 minutes, but don't rush. Take your time: take hours, take days. Take all the time you need.
Read before you do anything, and ask if you don't understand.
I have this issue every now and then when I use the stock recovery (the one i use to root) with ODIN, where it get stuck on everytime i try to wipe or flash, What I used to do is factory stock with Odin, then realize the even though it froze on wiping factory data, the rom wiped!! so what i do know is install rom manager and flash their recovery and problem solve,
this thread is very useful thanks guys.
by the way i dont flash JB roms yet until I they completely fix the call issues so. do you think its not only JB roms?
gypsy214 said:
I have this issue every now and then when I use the stock recovery (the one i use to root) with ODIN, where it get stuck on everytime i try to wipe or flash, What I used to do is factory stock with Odin, then realize the even though it froze on wiping factory data, the rom wiped!! so what i do know is install rom manager and flash their recovery and problem solve,
this thread is very useful thanks guys.
by the way i dont flash JB roms yet until I they completely fix the call issues so. do you think its not only JB roms?
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I have had the problem you describe as well. Some ROMs like certain recoveries better than others and if you end up with the wrong combo, they don't boot. Flashing the right recovery after that fixes it instantly, without even a need to reflash the ROM. No, this is a different problem.
We are talking about a problem where flashing a ROM corrupts your recovery so it will stop working on you completely: it just hangs, it won't restore, it won't flash anything. Also, one or more of the ROM partitions on your phone get corrupted somehow so that even ODIN back to stock doesn't get your phone working again (you end up with a fully stock phone that doesn't boot). Maybe the two are related, but I will let those who know more speak. I am just a regular guy who fiddles with his phone a lot more than he should.
As for the problem being on JB only: I've only had it when flashing JB ROMs. I first noticed it with MIUI, but then AOKP started acting up, and when I finally dared to flash a CM10 unofficial nightly for the first time, it happened too... And then I noticed it doesn't happen always, only sometimes, and other times it just leaves me with a JB ROM that doesn't boot, and in some rare occasions: it works without a hitch. Go figure.
Just bought an s3 and the owner put AOKP rom on it rooted the works. I do however want to start off completely fresh on Touchqiz and learn how to root and all of that myself. How would I go about doing this? When I factory reset in settings, it just goes back to stock AOKP.
Thanks!
bigdaddydo said:
Just bought an s3 and the owner put AOKP rom on it rooted the works. I do however want to start off completely fresh on Touchqiz and learn how to root and all of that myself. How would I go about doing this? When I factory reset in settings, it just goes back to stock AOKP.
Thanks!
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You will want to use Odin to flash a stock firmware. Or, you can do two steps in one and use Odin to flash a pre-rooted stock image, so you can get the experience of returning to stock and rooting your device yourself all at the same time!
After you flash the stock ROM, you will boot loop. When you get the loop, boot into recovery and do a factory reset.
mrhaley30705 said:
After you flash the stock ROM, you will boot loop. When you get the loop, boot into recovery and do a factory reset.
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Couldn't he do a format of everything in recovery and then flash the stock rom via ODIN?
I've been wondering about this myself. I feel that I've flashed and downloaded so much there has to be space being taken up that I will never use and different folder structures and what not.
If that's the case, could I just use the format options in TWRP and then install the rom of my choice?
If you are on AT&T with an I-747, please ensure that whatever you flash is for the I-747 or d2att. It sounds like you are pretty new at this. A lot of people have hard bricked their phone flashing Galaxy S3 ROMs that are not specifically for their device. Take the time to read up on here before you do anything. Let us know if you have questions before you dive in.
So I flashed a rooted 4.4.4 for Sprint, and it worked great. Flash forward about a year and I decided I wanted a fresh slate, so I did a factory reset with twrp and reflashed the ROM, but now my screen won't turn off and my power button wont kill the screen either. The power button still pulls up the power menu and when I gave it haptic feedback, the I feel it on every click,so the button is good. Help???
Full battery
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Pull the battery
Do it this way instead
Cgsouljah said:
...so I did a factory reset with twrp and reflashed the ROM, but now my screen won't turn off and my power button wont kill the screen either.
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All you needed to do was go into settings on you phone and do a factory restore that way. there was really no need to do a restore in recovery and also reflash the rom. That was overkill. At this point you should start over fresh and troubleshoot that way. You might also want to consider updating your phone to Lollipop. My advice is to update to lollipop via the official samsung OB7 odin rom tar. But before you odin flash that you will need to backup anything from your internal & external storage to your pc, flash drive, etc then reboot into TWRP and do a factory reset several times. next go to advanced wipe options and wipe everything several times... specifically system, cach, dalvic cache.
Then reboot to download mode and use odin to flash the OB7 rom tar found here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/general/stock-n910pvpu1anie-stock-tar-t2944867
Note 4 hasn't been out a year. What phone are you using?
w7excursion said:
Note 4 hasn't been out a year. What phone are you using?
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Way to call out my slight exaggeration lol. I am in progress with the reflash ATM, I'll let you know how it goes as soon as the firmware finishes downloading. Thanks for the input everybody!
Problem solved. Yo dbs.... I <3 you. thanks for the link. I got muh baby back!