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[Q] Can't boot to recovery or download mode

It is a long story, started with wanting Photoshare App. After rooting using Odin got into all sort of process stopped error. Desperate, downloaded and tried to flash CM10 using CWM. All I got was CM logo circling endlessly for 30 minutes. Pulled the plug and now, I seem to have a brick, can't even boot to recovery or download mode. When I try to boot to downlad mode, the warning screen appears for just a second and goes away. When I try recovery mode Samsumg log appears and then blank.
Is there anything I can do at this point? I appreciate any help I can get.

dileepan said:
It is a long story, started with wanting Photoshare App. After rooting using Odin got into all sort of process stopped error. Desperate, downloaded and tried to flash CM10 using CWM. All I got was CM logo circling endlessly for 30 minutes. Pulled the plug and now, I seem to have a brick, can't even boot to recovery or download mode. When I try to boot to downlad mode, the warning screen appears for just a second and goes away. When I try recovery mode Samsumg log appears and then blank.
Is there anything I can do at this point? I appreciate any help I can get.
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Hm. if you boot up your phone are you stuck at the cm bootup? If you are im sorry bro you cant fix it for free by sending it to samsung. JTAG for 60 bucks or samsung for 60 bucks. Reason being that it shows that you have rooted and modded your device. If you were hardbricked and nothing would turn on at all you would be able to send it to samsung and get it fixed for free!

Well if it shows Download mode then it might be working, just not showing, if you see a blue ID:COM number in Odin its working. Try to flash a stock ROM in Odin while in Download mode and make sure its in PDA or you will brick. Check only Auto-Reboot and F. Reset time.
If it works congrats if not search this forum for a service called JTAG which repairs bricks.
\(._.\) To the window, to the wall.
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A little update ...
I was able to get to download mode after many trys and got back to stock -- unrooted. I should have stopped when I was ahead, but I was feeling invincible after this feat of reviving the phone and that was really stupid.
I wanted to root and flash CM10 nightly. I followed the instructions from http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32486-gu...m10-nightlies-without-k-exec-updated-8-18-12/. After unlocking the bootloader step, I wanted to backup the stock ROM I had on the phone -- I don't know why I wanted to do that as I had just flashed the stock and didn't have anything customized. Anyway, when I clicked backup from CWM everything died, kaput, nothing. I have been desperately holding the power button, reovery combination of buttons, download mode combination, anything I can think of, the phone is giving me the total silent treatment, which BTW I am used from a more human source.
Let me know if there is anything I can do, perhaps stand on one leg and try switching it on perhaps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/redface.gif
Sorry for the dumb jokes, I am a little frustrated, but I am sure I will get over it.
Thanks for those who took interest to read my question and those who cared to respond, I appreciate it....
Cheers!

are you getting any signs of life with the phone plugged in with or without the battery in?

jeeper11 said:
are you getting any signs of life with the phone plugged in with or without the battery in?
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Absolutely nothing, not even the light that comes on when plugged in for charging.
best ...

dileepan said:
Absolutely nothing, not even the light that comes on when plugged in for charging.
best ...
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Best advice...take out the battery, leave for 1-2 hours, insert battery, try to access download, flash stock in odin, reboot, don't flash any more Jelly Bean roms. lol

Phone Keep Restarting Problem

Hey everyone I have a problem that I sort of fixed but not really? About 2 days ago my phone kept restarting and vibrating. I researched the problem and it said that it might be a stuck button problem. After a few hours I came to the conclusion that a stuck power button was the problem. I went to a cell phone repair shop and had it repaired. IT worked fine on the way home but then I got home and set it on the counter only to come back to it restarting and vibrating all over again. How is that possible after replacing the power button I though. So I did my best and I was able to flash the stock 4.1.2 rom back onto my phone and unroot it and everything. Now my phone has been working fine ever since. Could it be that I cant flash roms anymore? Does anyone know what the real problem to my phone is? If so please respond here. Thank you very much for you're time.

Jyjieng11 said:
Hey everyone I have a problem that I sort of fixed but not really? About 2 days ago my phone kept restarting and vibrating. I researched the problem and it said that it might be a stuck button problem. After a few hours I came to the conclusion that a stuck power button was the problem. I went to a cell phone repair shop and had it repaired. IT worked fine on the way home but then I got home and set it on the counter only to come back to it restarting and vibrating all over again. How is that possible after replacing the power button I though. So I did my best and I was able to flash the stock 4.1.2 rom back onto my phone and unroot it and everything. Now my phone has been working fine ever since. Could it be that I cant flash roms anymore? Does anyone know what the real problem to my phone is? If so please respond here. Thank you very much for you're time.
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If your phone is functioning normally.....there's no reason why you can't flash any rom made for our phone.
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The problem is that everytime I flash a custom rom my home button goes crazy and makes the rom un-usable. I have flashed both JMT and Slimrom on my phone and bot ended in the same result.

Jyjieng11 said:
The problem is that everytime I flash a custom rom my home button goes crazy and makes the rom un-usable. I have flashed both JMT and Slimrom on my phone and bot ended in the same result.
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It sounds more like boot loops which can happen often if you look thru the forums. Your buttons either work or they don't. What rom you are on plays no part in hardware issues like that.
Just be sure when trying a rom, you follow the instructions to the letter. Otherwise boot loops can easily happen.
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kj2112 said:
It sounds more like boot loops which can happen often if you look thru the forums. Your buttons either work or they don't. What rom you are on plays no part in hardware issues like that.
Just be sure when trying a rom, you follow the instructions to the letter. Otherwise boot loops can easily happen.
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It couldnt have been a bootloop because it was working just fine for a while after flashing and then later on I set it on the table to come back to it flashing where it kept unlocking and locking and unlocking. I was unable to do anything with the phone at the time and after a while it kept restarting and vibrating. You dont think its hardware issues?

[Q] Soft Bricked GS3 with CM10.1 Update

So I recently updated my GS3 to the nightly 8/12/13 build am I am unable to boot my phone into anything except download mode. When booting recovery it says the blue text, shows Galaxy S3 for a second, then crashes to the recharging icon. I've tried flashing a stock MD4 rooted nodata and a stock recovery through Odin, which pass and return no results. Please help me fix this!!!
It rebooted a couple times once and I got the stock recharging battery, not the blue one but the green one. But other than that there's no signs of change.

Questions belong in Q&A section not general. This should get you going in the right direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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FNM

QBKing's site is down, here's an even more in depth explanation of my problem:
I cannot boot past the Sprint Galaxy S3 logo. When it does boot past this, it boots into a battery charging mode, either a blue battery with static circle, or a green touchwiz battery.
I have flashed stock and custom roms without any results, when odin reboots, it simply flashes the galaxy s3 spashscreen again and goes to the battery charging icon. This is true no matter what I do, including entering recovery with the home, power and volume up buttons.
I've tried QBKings tutorials, but in this case without downloads they are not useful. I've tried quite a bit of stuff and I'm not worried about losing data at this point.
I found the link on QBKing's website, so hopefully this will work, I'll update again once I flash.
EDIT: Didn't work after following instructions completely, just stuck in vibrate loop afterwards, and after power cycling it's back to the same thing.
The red light lights up right after I plug it in, and I am unable to run or turn on the phone using battery power, even with a full battery.

Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.

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Xenthis said:
Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.
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Hey man, I soft bricked my phone as well. Not with CM but by doing a factory reset on the phone when it was rooted. Im stuck on Galaxy S III screen as well and a vibrate loop. I've tried to unroot/unbrick also but to no avail. Any help anyone?

I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.

Xenthis said:
I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.
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They didnt ask you about root or nothing??

derryj3 said:
They didnt ask you about root or nothing??
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Nope, they knew too, I had CWM installed when I went in, and it was still there when I came out, with 3 more flashes on the counter. I must have gotten lucky.

i9082 won't start up

Hi guys! I need your help!
So I was able to root my phone and installed a custom mod. Now it's working perfectly. HOORAY!... But, that's not my problem.
About two weeks ago I rooted my brothers phone and installed the same mod. He has the same phone I have (Galaxy Grand Duos i9082). He was able to use the phone without problems for about two weeks until yesterday. He fully drained the battery and now the phone won't start up despite attempts of charging it. I have tried on putting my own charged battery on his phone but no luck, it just won't turn on. I tried doing the boot up to recovery button combo (menu+power+vol up) but no go. Screen still stays black.
Any help?

AlfaM03 said:
Hi guys! I need your help!
Screen still stays black.
Any help?
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screen stays black..,..is fone turning on at all ? any sound ? or just nothing at all
have u tried connecting to odin in download spalshscreen ?
or tru ADB
Can fone connect to pc

bodmar said:
screen stays black..,..is fone turning on at all ? any sound ? or just nothing at all
have u tried connecting to odin in download spalshscreen ?
or tru ADB
Can fone connect to pc
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Yeah. Screen stays black. Although I've read a lot about hard bricks, I surely hope the phone isn't. It's kinda strange because my brother has been using it for about 2 weeks without a problem then this. I haven't gotten my hands on the phone lately to try to connect it to a PC but will update you on the progress if I do so. All I know for now is that he drained his battery but can't seem to charge it. I tried his battery on my phone and tried charging it and it did. I tried my own battery on his phone but it couldn't turn on. Damn.

AlfaM03 said:
Hi guys! I need your help!
So I was able to root my phone and installed a custom mod. Now it's working perfectly. HOORAY!... But, that's not my problem.
About two weeks ago I rooted my brothers phone and installed the same mod. He has the same phone I have (Galaxy Grand Duos i9082). He was able to use the phone without problems for about two weeks until yesterday. He fully drained the battery and now the phone won't start up despite attempts of charging it. I have tried on putting my own charged battery on his phone but no luck, it just won't turn on. I tried doing the boot up to recovery button combo (menu+power+vol up) but no go. Screen still stays black.
Any help?
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I just read such black screen and phone not starting problem in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-grand-duos/help/official-software-upgrade-probably-t2827213

AlfaM03 said:
Hi guys! I need your help!
So I was able to root my phone and installed a custom mod. Now it's working perfectly. HOORAY!... But, that's not my problem.
About two weeks ago I rooted my brothers phone and installed the same mod. He has the same phone I have (Galaxy Grand Duos i9082). He was able to use the phone without problems for about two weeks until yesterday. He fully drained the battery and now the phone won't start up despite attempts of charging it. I have tried on putting my own charged battery on his phone but no luck, it just won't turn on. I tried doing the boot up to recovery button combo (menu+power+vol up) but no go. Screen still stays black.
Any help?
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Dear friend, Did you repair your phone my case is similar to yours.

Hi,
is there any solution for this problem i am also facing this same problem,
please help.!

hi,
my samsung galaxy grand gt i9082 is sowing black screen?
so, plz help me to clear my problem

T999 Won't boot/start

Didn't find anything similar on here so I had to post. My T999 no longer boots except for a vibrate when the battery is removed and re-inserted. Occasionally it will get to the CM boot logo and then the screen goes off. If I time the button presses right, I get to the Download screen but before I can hit the Up button to confirm download mode the screen shuts off. This happened all of a sudden yesterday, the last activity being to shut off the Alarm. Tried charging but it will not get past the initial battery icon before the screen goes off. Tried replacing the battery but that didn't help. I also tried to follow the debrick instructions but it didn't help. I was running Vanir AOSP 4.4.4 with no issues until yesterday. The device does not register when connected to the PC using USB and the charger LED does not light up when plugged into charger/PC. My feeling is that something went wrong with the boot but I am unable to get into any usable screen to do anything. I had managed to brick a Samsung Vibrant before but I didn't have to struggle as much to debrick and ODIN back to stock. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm now without a phone .

Mine is also acting like that. It wont boot to any rom even stock ones. But i noticed that if i connect my charger it will boot to the homescreen. Sounds like a battery issue right? I also thought that but when i go to recovery, it did not shutdown after leaving it for a couple of minutes. I'm also baffled why it wont boot. I'll try to borrow other battery to test if it still the same.

maelstromm said:
Didn't find anything similar on here so I had to post. My T999 no longer boots except for a vibrate when the battery is removed and re-inserted. Occasionally it will get to the CM boot logo and then the screen goes off. If I time the button presses right, I get to the Download screen but before I can hit the Up button to confirm download mode the screen shuts off. This happened all of a sudden yesterday, the last activity being to shut off the Alarm. Tried charging but it will not get past the initial battery icon before the screen goes off. Tried replacing the battery but that didn't help. I also tried to follow the debrick instructions but it didn't help. I was running Vanir AOSP 4.4.4 with no issues until yesterday. The device does not register when connected to the PC using USB and the charger LED does not light up when plugged into charger/PC. My feeling is that something went wrong with the boot but I am unable to get into any usable screen to do anything. I had managed to brick a Samsung Vibrant before but I didn't have to struggle as much to debrick and ODIN back to stock. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm now without a phone .
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Remove battery snd put back in. Does the device try to turn on by itself? If so you probably have a bad power button.
LarsonJayz said:
Mine is also acting like that. It wont boot to any rom even stock ones. But i noticed that if i connect my charger it will boot to the homescreen. Sounds like a battery issue right? I also thought that but when i go to recovery, it did not shutdown after leaving it for a couple of minutes. I'm also baffled why it wont boot. I'll try to borrow other battery to test if it still the same.
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Boot download mode and flash stock or root66 firmware with Odin. (You may need to factory reset too)

DocHoliday77 said:
Boot download mode and flash stock or root66 firmware with Odin. (You may need to factory reset too)
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Done this using root66 but still the same. Now my phone went to worse. It wont get past the S3 logo in the boot screen and just shuts down followed by a vibrate. But if i connect my charger, it will continue and run as normal. My suspect might be a bad battery but the thing is it doesn't auto shutdown when is download mode or in recovery mode. Will try to borrow other battery and update if this fixes the problem.

This is pretty strange. Woke up to my phone with the Galaxy s3 boot logo. And it wouldn't go past it. Tried flashing different backups I had but none of them let me go past the boot logo. Flashed CM10 since my version of TWRP recovery is so old that it can't flash anything higher up, and it goes past the boot logo finally after 2 hours then goes to the cyanogen boot logo but doesn't go past that. I'm going to try with ODIN tonight.
Seems very strange that there are others that had this happen to them to. My phone has never done this before, and it happened randomly.

What does it mean if my phone doesn't boot past the logo with an odin to root66 file?
Edit: Nevermind seems to have worked... for now.
Edit 2: Okay so now it's stuck in an infinite loop where it boots past the logo, shows the android mascot then does an android is upgrading app 1 of 169 then goes back all over again. This is fun! Can anyone help?
Edit 3: Okay so I had to do a factory reset. Got it working now. Starting to get sick of the things I have to do to get updated firmware. Samsung needs to get their crap together!

LarsonJayz said:
Done this using root66 but still the same. Now my phone went to worse. It wont get past the S3 logo in the boot screen and just shuts down followed by a vibrate. But if i connect my charger, it will continue and run as normal. My suspect might be a bad battery but the thing is it doesn't auto shutdown when is download mode or in recovery mode. Will try to borrow other battery and update if this fixes the problem.
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Hopefully its just the battery.
Download mode may work because of how the battery reports to the os. If its going bad and reporting incorrectly that its low, it may trigger a shutdown. Whereas in download mode the os isn't running so its not reading the battery info the same way. Just a guess.
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What does it mean if my phone doesn't boot past the logo with an odin to root66 file?
Edit: Nevermind seems to have worked... for now.
Edit 2: Okay so now it's stuck in an infinite loop where it boots past the logo, shows the android mascot then does an android is upgrading app 1 of 169 then goes back all over again. This is fun! Can anyone help?
Edit 3: Okay so I had to do a factory reset. Got it working now. Starting to get sick of the things I have to do to get updated firmware. Samsung needs to get their crap together!
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Just for future reference, factory resetting solves about 98% of boot hangs.
Still for both of you, id take this as a sign that you should make sure your backups are up to date. If something is failing you'll be glad you did!

DocHoliday77 said:
Just for future reference, factory resetting solves about 98% of boot hangs.
Still for both of you, id take this as a sign that you should make sure your backups are up to date. If something is failing you'll be glad you did!
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Yeah factory reset unfortunately didn't work for me when I needed it before I had to ODIN to root66. But I was able to do a nandroid after I couldn't get it to boot and extract my sms from Titanium backup. What an awesome app, super thankful to that dev for making it.

DocHoliday77 said:
Hopefully its just the battery.
Download mode may work because of how the battery reports to the os. If its going bad and reporting incorrectly that its low, it may trigger a shutdown. Whereas in download mode the os isn't running so its not reading the battery info the same way. Just a guess.
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Turns out it was the battery sir. I've tested it with another battery from 2 different phones and it worked fine. While the phone i tested with the defective battery didn't event get passed the samsung logo. I've suspected it might be having the low voltage causing the phone to shut down.
Anyways, after that i bought a new battery immediately and everything seems ok. thanks for the reply doc.

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Remove battery snd put back in. Does the device try to turn on by itself? If so you probably have a bad power button.
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I can confirm that it is likely a bad power button, I have tried everything including dismantling it and seeing if I could dislodge any dirt that may be causing the problem but it didn't work. Looks like I have to find a local repair shop or ebay to get it resolved. Anyone recommend a good place to get this fixed. Funds are limited

Im not sure exactly how difficult the repair is most people seem so do it themselves and have given indications that its pretty easy. You can find the part online for a few bucks.