Hello!
I have a SGH-T889V Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I've had it rooted and running custom ROMs for more than 6 months, and I've never had an issue until now. I've tried flashing CM, pacman, and omnirom. All of them worked just fine (loaded ROM onto external SD, booted into recovery mode, factory reset, flashed ROM, flashed gapps, reboot phone and everything was peachy). I use Rom manager.
Yesterday, I tried flashing an update to omnirom (the 11/17 update) the same way as before. I got an error message, telling me the update failed. So I tried to reboot my phone again, but it told me that I had lost root access, and asked me if I wanted to fix that. When I picked yes, it went back to the Samsung load screen, and then the recovery screen appeared again. When I tried to "reboot phone now", it just flashed the samsung logo and then back to the recovery screen.
I tried loading the stock rom back on the eternal sd. That didn't work. Basically, when I took the external sd card out and stuck it in my computer, it told me that I had to format it to use it. It gave me exfat and ntfs as the write options. I tried it both ways, but neither of them were registering when i stuck the external sd back onto my phone and tried to mount it, so I can't flash anything from my external sd. To get my phone to register the external sd, I have to format it through rom manager / recovery screen. That works, and after that, my phone registers the SD card, but obviously I still can't flash anything off the external sd once I've formatted it on the phone.
I tried using the toolkit posted in the android development section to load the stock rom. I tried sideloading and also pushing the file to the phone. Both times, I got a messaging saying that it was waiting for USB debugging to be enabled. As far as I know, I can't do that from the recovery mode of ROM manager. So no dice there.
Essentially, I've softbricked my phone. Whenever i boot it up, it goes straight to recovery mode (and I only hold down the power button, not the typical power + home key + volume up key to bring up recovery). I can't flash the stock rom back on the phone, since my external sd does not register after i format it on my computer. When I try to plug my phone into my pc to load stuff on there directly, I can see it registers as MGH, but it does not show up in Windows Explorer to allow me to put any files on there. When I select "reboot phone now" in recovery, it shows the Samsung logo screen briefly before going back to the recovery screen.
I'm really stuck Does anyone have suggestions on what I can do. please?
Have you tried ODIN to flash stock image back on device? Another thing u could try is use another microsd card and format it as FAT32, load your ROM on there via PC and then flash whatever.
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funkstylez said:
Have you tried ODIN to flash stock image back on device? Another thing u could try is use another microsd card and format it as FAT32, load your ROM on there via PC and then flash whatever.
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thanks! reading up on Odin now, I'll let you know what happens after I try that.
funkstylez said:
Have you tried ODIN to flash stock image back on device? Another thing u could try is use another microsd card and format it as FAT32, load your ROM on there via PC and then flash whatever.
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So I have Odin up and running, I have the stock rom and it's been converted to a TAR file. However, I can't get Odin to work properly because it does not register that my phone is connected to my PC (presumably it should show up in one of the rectangles at the top of Odin once I plug my phone into my laptop via USB). Since my pc (and thus odin) does not detect my phone, I can't flash anything onto it
At this point, I have the appropriate stock roms, I have odin, and my phone still boots up to the recovery screen (with rom manager), but I can't manage to get it connected to my computer, though I have the Samsung drivers installed and working (up until i softbricked my phone).
ETA: google is my friend! Found clear instructions on using odin to flash the stock rom, and yes, it worked. Thanks!!
Google is everyone's friend and I'm glad you figured it out.
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Ok, I was running a stock (rooted) 2.1 rom on my Evo until someone using my phone updated me to 2.2 via an OTA update. I didn't really mind, just meant a re-root and a data wipe. Or so I thought.
Everything was going swimmingly until I came to the recovery flash portion of the root (unrevoked reflash). It recognized my phone, proceeded to flash it, but it failed about 3/4 of the way through. Again, I thought no problem I'd just boot into recovery and start over. When I try and boot into recovery, I get the exclamation point error and try to update by holding volume up and pressing power, but the recovery can't mount my sdcard. Well, now recovery is out of the question and I can't use adb to remote into it; phone doesn't recognize my sdcard or any usb connection (even to charge, unless I take the battery out and plug it in after I re-seat the battery). Computer recognizes the card just fine from a card reader, loaded up things onto it with no problem.
How the am I supposed to fix this? Phone boots into stock 2.1 (unrooted), but I can't adb in, load an image off my sdcard (bootloader recognizes the card, but won't let me flash from the pc36img present on the card), or use recovery to load my backup.
I'm screwed, aren't I? If so, think Sprint will replace it if I act like the OTA update trashed it?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S 2 Hercules. (T-Mobile). Last night I wiped my data and cache completely off my phone, and forgot to flash my ROM onto the phone beforehand. So now, I am stuck with only being able to access recovery mode and I have tried so many things already. I've tried using the adb shell to recover, but I keep getting errors because it can not find my phone. When I plug it in, Windows makes a noise, but does not recongize the device itself. I tried to use my NANdroid backup on clockworkmod, but the phone just turns off when I click download. I have a few recovery.img files of my phone, but I can not figure out how to get them back onto my phone since the computer doesn't recognize it. When I try to use Odin to recover my phone, it pretty much doesn't do anything. (Yes, I was in recovery mode) I will try anything to get my phone working again, please give me some ideas.
If you are able to get into recovery, you could download a rom into your sd card through you computer. Then put the sd card into your phone and flash it .
Just put rom in thr sdcard and flash man
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Hello,
I hope someone can help me. I'm not completely ignorant when it comes to rooting and flashing custom roms, but it's been a while since the last time I did (last time was my Samsung Galaxy S2). Today I decided I was going to root my N5110 Note 8 and install a 4.4.2 rom on it.
I decided I was going to install the Omni Rom linked here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2569099
I apologize in advance for the long descriptions below.
Here are the steps and issues in the order that it happened:
1) Flashed CF-Auto-Root-konawifi-konawifixx-gtn5110 using Odin (Auto Reboot, F. Reset Time)
2) Downloaded Rom Manager App, and booted into Recovery from there.
3) Using CWM Recovery, I followed instructions as described on the Omni link and did a Wipe/Factory Reset
4) Using CWM Recovery, I selected to install zip from SDCard, and selected the omni-4.4.2-20140102-n5110-HOMEMADE.zip
5) After a few seconds, I got an error 7, and the installation aborted.
6) Tried to reboot back to the system, but of course now that everything is wiped, it just loops back to recovery.
7) I tried installing the zip again, same error. I checked the thread and someone mentioned the same error. OP mentioned using TWRP, so I went back into Download mode and flashed TWRP via Odin
8) After reboot, it went into TWRP. Tried installing zip again, same error. I decided I'll pick up another rom to try first. So, I took out my microSD card so that I can load the ROM over to it.
9) Booted back into TWRP - it no longer sees my SD card. Tried to power down from recovery menus in hopes to get it to see the sd card. No luck
10) I'm desperate now--I am trying to force it off by holding down the power button. It reboots back into recovery. I even try to get it back to download mode so I can flash CWM back on, in hopes that it will let me retry. But now it just shows the battery screen (like when you're charging it while powered off) at empty. I unplug the USB cable, the screen turns off.
11) I try to power it back on without the USB cable plugged in, nothing happens.
12) I plug the USB power back in, and it looks like it's booting up. It goes to the Samsung Note 8.0 N5110 screen and just flickers. The flickering increases in speed over time.
13) I force it back into Download mode, and try to run the CF Auto-Root again (like I said I'm desperate now).
14) After Odin reboots the device, it goes into the battery screen and is doing the weird flickering thing again.
I'm currently attempting to download XXCMH3_stock-rooted-official.zip in hopes to flash via Odin, but the d/l keeps timing out before the whole thing can be transferred.
Someone, please help! What am I doing wrong?
bbqnjl said:
Hello,
I hope someone can help me. I'm not completely ignorant when it comes to rooting and flashing custom roms, but it's been a while since the last time I did (last time was my Samsung Galaxy S2). Today I decided I was going to root my N5110 Note 8 and install a 4.4.2 rom on it.
I decided I was going to install the Omni Rom linked here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2569099
I apologize in advance for the long descriptions below.
Here are the steps and issues in the order that it happened:
1) Flashed CF-Auto-Root-konawifi-konawifixx-gtn5110 using Odin (Auto Reboot, F. Reset Time)
2) Downloaded Rom Manager App, and booted into Recovery from there.
3) Using CWM Recovery, I followed instructions as described on the Omni link and did a Wipe/Factory Reset
4) Using CWM Recovery, I selected to install zip from SDCard, and selected the omni-4.4.2-20140102-n5110-HOMEMADE.zip
5) After a few seconds, I got an error 7, and the installation aborted.
6) Tried to reboot back to the system, but of course now that everything is wiped, it just loops back to recovery.
7) I tried installing the zip again, same error. I checked the thread and someone mentioned the same error. OP mentioned using TWRP, so I went back into Download mode and flashed TWRP via Odin
8) After reboot, it went into TWRP. Tried installing zip again, same error. I decided I'll pick up another rom to try first. So, I took out my microSD card so that I can load the ROM over to it.
9) Booted back into TWRP - it no longer sees my SD card. Tried to power down from recovery menus in hopes to get it to see the sd card. No luck
10) I'm desperate now--I am trying to force it off by holding down the power button. It reboots back into recovery. I even try to get it back to download mode so I can flash CWM back on, in hopes that it will let me retry. But now it just shows the battery screen (like when you're charging it while powered off) at empty. I unplug the USB cable, the screen turns off.
11) I try to power it back on without the USB cable plugged in, nothing happens.
12) I plug the USB power back in, and it looks like it's booting up. It goes to the Samsung Note 8.0 N5110 screen and just flickers. The flickering increases in speed over time.
13) I force it back into Download mode, and try to run the CF Auto-Root again (like I said I'm desperate now).
14) After Odin reboots the device, it goes into the battery screen and is doing the weird flickering thing again.
I'm currently attempting to download XXCMH3_stock-rooted-official.zip in hopes to flash via Odin, but the d/l keeps timing out before the whole thing can be transferred.
Someone, please help! What am I doing wrong?
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Hi, just so you know... you do not need to root a stock ROM to flash a custom ROM... I am surprised that you think that is necessary
Did you ever set USB debugging to enabled?
Also what Odin do you have?
Turn off note, remove SD, and see if you can start in Stock download mode.
Flash with Odin 3.07... repeat flash with Odin 3.07 and use N5110UEFMI1_N5110XARFMI1_HOME.tar.md5 from http://samsungis.com/
Here is a copy of a reply on a thread it may help if you cannot perform the simple task of reflashing stock ROM from my small list of steps.
Harjan112 said:
Have you tried to flash with Re-Partition checked in Odin 3.07? It looks like your partions are messed up, if it was me I would just give it a try "flashing with re-partition checked" seeing as though its not working anyway.
If that don't work see if you can get a PIT file somewhere, I did read someone put up a link for a PIT file here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544451 although I am NOT 100% sure if this is for the GT-N5110 but read thru it and if you feel adventurous give that PIT file a try.
And here is a link http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/Galaxy+Note+8/XXCMG2/ that someone put up with a leaked firmware and the PIT file and CODE file for the N5110 you can give that a try also.
- Unzip the file
- Open Odin 3.07 (already included in the firmware package)
- Restart phone in download mode
(Press and hold Home + Power + Volume down buttons)
- Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
- Add CODE_N5110XXCMG2_1031850_REV01_user_low_ship.tar to CODE
- Add CSC_OXA_N5110OXACMG2_1031850_REV01_user_mid_noship .tar to CSC
- Add kona_wifi.pit to PIT
- Make sure re-partition is ticked
- Start flash, sit back and wait a few minutes.
- If you encounter any issues with the firmware (Any FC, Bootloop etc)
- Boot into recovery mode (Home+ Power + Volume Up)
- Choose to wipe/factory reset.
(THIS WILL ERASE ALL OF YOUR DATA INCLUDING YOUR INTERNAL SD CARD!)
- Then choose reboot and you should be good to go!
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In TWRP v2.6.3.0 look under mount and see if Micro Sdcard has an "x" if there is no "x" check this and go back to the screen where is says reboot ... reboot recovery from there, once rebooted in recovery go to install and in the top (if you are on v2.6.3.0) you should see storage, tap that and you should have a choice from internal storage and Micro SDcard, if you see Micro SDcard there you should select that and hit ok.
Hoping this helps.
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My apologies. I didn't see any of the replies since my email subscription went to my spam folder.
Thank you for those of you who took the time to try and help me.
I know I didn't have to flash stock, but it was more of me being desperate and just trying to put ANY rom on to get it to turn on.
By some weird luck, I had got my tablet working the next day. Basically, in defeat, I just let it sit on the charger overnight thinking a full tank of gas would help it. The next morning, I seriously just pressed all the button combinations and managed to get it to go into recovery and see my SD. I tried yet again to install the Omni Rom again but no dice. It gave me an error again.
So I tried to install a rom again, this time the PAC-rom.
It worked!
Tablet is functional again!
So thank all of you and the electronics god for the miracle!
Have a great weekend you fine folks!
Hello. I have a i317 Note 2, running on T-mobile. It is rooted and was running Blisspop 5.x rom. I had set my phone down and noticed it was on the Samsung screen. Figured it was just a random reboot; but it never booted up. I reboot into recovery (TWRP) to find that there is no OS installed. It says my internal storage is 0mb, my external storage is 0mb (I have a 32gb sd card). I cannot mount nor access external storage, or anything internal. I cannot format data. I am able to see my phone while it is in recovery on my computer. But once I put it in download mode, it can no longer be seen. ADB cannot see it in download mode, I cannot fastboot (unless I'm doing it wrong). I used Odin, which can see it in download mode, but it did not fix anything. Also, now the phone says it is unable to format to remove encryption.
Prior to this it had a problem where it would be unable to stat things. Is there any way to fix this? Or am I SOL?
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Hello. I have a i317 Note 2, running on T-mobile. It is rooted and was running Blisspop 5.x rom. I had set my phone down and noticed it was on the Samsung screen. Figured it was just a random reboot; but it never booted up. I reboot into recovery (TWRP) to find that there is no OS installed. It says my internal storage is 0mb, my external storage is 0mb (I have a 32gb sd card). I cannot mount nor access external storage, or anything internal. I cannot format data. I am able to see my phone while it is in recovery on my computer. But once I put it in download mode, it can no longer be seen. ADB cannot see it in download mode, I cannot fastboot (unless I'm doing it wrong). I used Odin, which can see it in download mode, but it did not fix anything. Also, now the phone says it is unable to format to remove encryption.
Prior to this it had a problem where it would be unable to stat things. Is there any way to fix this? Or am I SOL?
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You used Odin for what? Did you try flashing stock rom? Try using the rescue option in KIES. It has saved me in the past when I had messed up my device.
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You used Odin for what? Did you try flashing stock rom? Try using the rescue option in KIES. It has saved me in the past when I had messed up my device.
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Sorry about that, forgot that bit! I used odin to flash the stock rom, and even tried a .pit repartition. Kies does not see the phone. At most, it sees it but will not connect. So there are no rescue options to be had.
I thought I made progress. I was able to do the firmware reset with Keis. The phone got to the blisspop launch screen but just stayed there. I rebooted into TWRP and it still said I had 0mb of internal storage, and still had no OS installed. ADB still didn't see the phone, either. Now the phone will no longer boot to samsung, or to recovery, or TWRP. If I hold the power button the proximity sensor shines for a moment but that's it.
Same problem here, same phone but t0lte that ran many ROMs over 4 trouble-free years . Still at the pre-Kies stage, thus still can access twrp. Tried overwriting twrp with philz or CWM - Odin says PASSED but reality say no dice - twrp is still the recovery. Tried flashing stock - Odin again said PASSED, but still have twrp reporting 0MB.
Spent 1day surfing xda to ensure I have correct files and procedures.
Wonder if there has been any solution found...
When flashing a new recovery, do not check auto reboot. Flash the recovery in Odin. When you see the word reset in the status window, remove the USB cable from the phone, remove the battery, replace the battery, boot into recovery. Hopefully, this method will work.
I made a very noob mistake today. I was going to factory reset my Oneplus 3 in TWRP (recovery) and flash back to the stock rom but I accidentally checked off everything to be erased... which erased my current operating system, along with the stock rom I was going to install :crying:
Now im stuck with no OS, phone won't boot, can only get into recovery etc etc
I tried connecting it to the computer and clicking MOUNT in recovery, my PC detects it, but when I try to drag and drop the stock rom it just hangs there and the file transfer progress bar doesnt move.
What are my options ?
The phone is rooted
You can use sideload from twrp. Or you can put the zip you want to flash in a usb and flash it via otg.
613BulletProof said:
I made a very noob mistake today. I was going to factory reset my Oneplus 3 in TWRP (recovery) and flash back to the stock rom but I accidentally checked off everything to be erased... which erased my current operating system, along with the stock rom I was going to install :crying:
Now im stuck with no OS, phone won't boot, can only get into recovery etc etc
I tried connecting it to the computer and clicking MOUNT in recovery, my PC detects it, but when I try to drag and drop the stock rom it just hangs there and the file transfer progress bar doesnt move.
What are my options ?
The phone is rooted
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Put the OOS you want to install on a flash memory and use it as OTG from TWRP
As mentioned above, sideload is the easiest way.
Simply follow the steps here:
https://twrp.me/faq/ADBSideload.html
You can transfer data from a pc in twrp so you have loads of options
Push it with ADB
Ex- "adb push (input_file_name) /sdcard/(output_file_name)"
I will try adb sideloading, i had tried that method a while back for installing a rom and had issues, i have windows 10.
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You can transfer data from a pc in twrp so you have loads of options
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already tried that it wont let me. it detects the phone on my pc, but when dragging and dropping it wont transfer and throws an error saying device could not be found.
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already tried that it wont let me. it detects the phone on my pc, but when dragging and dropping it wont transfer and throws an error saying device could not be found.
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Try reflashing twrp from fastboot
I had the same problem when I was trying to upgrade to OOS 4.0. The phone was stuck at bootscreen. I powered it off by holding power button for 10 seconds. I turned it on again and booted in recovery mode. Then I connected my OP3 to PC and I was able to copy the .zip file into the TWRP folder. In recovery mode I installed the latest firmware from the .zip file.
Maybe I should mention that the OS I'm using is Arch Linux. My PC instantly recognized my phone.