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S3 won't boot, load CWM, go into download mode...

Alright, so I have an i-747 (AT&T GS3) running AOKP Jellybean (8.28 build) with the KT747 kernel. I just tried to install Chainfire 3D using the automated installer, and when the phone rebooted, it stuck at the Samsung Galaxy S3 logo until I pulled battery. So I tried rebooting into CWM - same problem. And again with download mode. Even after pulling the battery for a good 5 minutes, nothing works. Am I bricked, or is there some fix for this?

If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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g2tegg said:
If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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Yeah, I made a nandroid just this afternoon, but I can't actually boot into CWM at all. As in, I turn on the phone (power+home+volume up), it gets to the Galaxy S3 logo and just hangs there. If I could get into CWM (or download mode) this would be about a 10 minute fix, but I'm kind of out of luck here.

Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.

HELP I have the same issue
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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Hi, sorry to say but sounds like its bricked
Thanks

MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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I doubt it's bricked if he got it into download mode. I'm sure he's flashed it and even got his wallpaper back up by now. Please let us know of you've managed to solve this or not MrPhantom.
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Curious?
I know its technically "Solved" but does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I have a Verizon GS3 and it's happening to me. I try to boot and it vibrates once and doesn't turn on. Recovery does the same thing. But going into Download mode works. Odin back to stock as we speak but I'm just curious what went wrong. I just did a clean install of a rom, set it all up (working at the time), set it down for the night and woke up to it like this.

rrrs444230 said:
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
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Same thing happned to me but your not bricked. You can get into bolth download and boot mode easy
Here is how you do it.
RECOVERY MODE
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME UP' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 5 seconds to enter Recovery Mode.
[edit]Download Mode
Save that somewhere. Make sure do it right. I got stuck also and thought I couldn't get into recovery but I had to do it right (it hit recovery mode first try) I have learned that most people do it slightly wrong. Make sure follow directions
Download mode
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME DOWN' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 2 seconds until a WARNING! Screen appears. Press the 'VOLUME UP' button to enter Download Mode.
To get out of Download Mode, simply press and hold the power button until the phone restarts
if helps hit thanks.
Just save that to a text file somewhere
I have also soft bricked when I deleted my rom once on accident. I dunno how I did it but I would get stuck at the TWRP screen. It wouldn't go to download or anything however when I plugged it into odin it saw it .... I even had a soft brick when screen went black from a bad boot animation and same thing.. and I had one bad soft brick where it took about 100 trys to get it into download mode (black screen) but odin detected it. I spent like 4 hours working on it.
I think
1. People don't follow directions correct (they do it a little wrong) which is enough if your phones messed up for it not to work.
when your phones normal it can get into recovery or download easy but when its sick you got to do it perfect.
2. I think something wrong with the phones (my s2 never had any issues in 2 years of owning it) S3 has tons of issues from usb, to bluetooth, to these soft bricks I have had)
3. Roms play a big part
4. I also think the way storage works in this new phone causes lots issues I dunno why just what I think
anyway Like I said now when I have a isssue I open text and read it and make sure I do it right and 95 percent of the time it was my fault I wasn't doing it right. K just my thoughts

when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different

phatchef1 said:
when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different
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That's most likely cause you're not in the right section..: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1708

Asking for help after being stuck for 1 hr

Long story short
Rogers Note 2
Got AllShare Cast dongle today and got it working with Stock rom, as I understood that it doesnt work with custom rom - I went ahead and tried with - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575 and expected, it didnt work so this involved triangle away etc
Phone had no issue, went to TWRP recovery
So now, I though I will try something else like - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984546&highlight=allshare
But I got stuck, it wouldn't go to recovery mode, it was stuck on SAMSUNG
So I ODIN'ed it and put stock back - I317MVLALJ2_I317MOYAALJ2_I317MVLALJ2_HOME.tar.md5
It went successfully, and then it rebooted but its stuck at SAMSUNG which is flashing with colorrs
I have seen this happen before with my Galaxy and S3 and the fix was to goto Recovery ( Stock ) and factory reset and it fixed it
BUT I just can't get into recovery mode
I then ODIN'ed TWRP but again, can't get into recovery mode
VOL UP + HOME + POWER
I am stuck big time, what else can I do?

inningsdefeat500 said:
Long story short
Rogers Note 2
Got AllShare Cast dongle today and got it working with Stock rom, as I understood that it doesnt work with custom rom - I went ahead and tried with - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575 and expected, it didnt work so this involved triangle away etc
Phone had no issue, went to TWRP recovery
So now, I though I will try something else like - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984546&highlight=allshare
But I got stuck, it wouldn't go to recovery mode, it was stuck on SAMSUNG
So I ODIN'ed it and put stock back - I317MVLALJ2_I317MOYAALJ2_I317MVLALJ2_HOME.tar.md5
It went successfully, and then it rebooted but its stuck at SAMSUNG which is flashing with colorrs
I have seen this happen before with my Galaxy and S3 and the fix was to goto Recovery ( Stock ) and factory reset and it fixed it
BUT I just can't get into recovery mode
I then ODIN'ed TWRP but again, can't get into recovery mode
VOL UP + HOME + POWER
I am stuck big time, what else can I do?
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When you Up/Home/Power do you get download mode? I had a similar issue and had to flash back to stock. If you can get download mode then not all is lost.
I will see if I can find the post I used.
EDIT: This was the post I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650 It will put you back to stock/rooted.

Krystm said:
When you Up/Home/Power do you get download mode? I had a similar issue and had to flash back to stock. If you can get download mode then not all is lost.
I will see if I can find the post I used.
EDIT: This was the post I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650 It will put you back to stock/rooted.
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I did flash to stock and then get back to Recovery but all is fixed and here's the explanation
When I had TWRP - I press VOL UP + HOME + POWER in any order, and it went to recovery, my last try was CWM which ironically never installed the 1st time I installed recovery and read this post in some website that WAIT for Samsung and then release power, i was like - lets try
So VOL UP + HOME + POWER all the same time, only release power when Samsung logo came and voila, I was in CWM
Pheww.I was like, I am dead
Also found, the hard way that ROGERS STOCK ROM Posted here - http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8176 is actually BELL
tx for ur reply and link mate

inningsdefeat500 said:
I did flash to stock and then get back to Recovery but all is fixed and here's the explanation
When I had TWRP - I press VOL UP + HOME + POWER in any order, and it went to recovery, my last try was CWM which ironically never installed the 1st time I installed recovery and read this post in some website that WAIT for Samsung and then release power, i was like - lets try
So VOL UP + HOME + POWER all the same time, only release power when Samsung logo came and voila, I was in CWM
Pheww.I was like, I am dead
Also found, the hard way that ROGERS STOCK ROM Posted here - http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8176 is actually BELL
tx for ur reply and link mate
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I am currently on JEDI 6.1 on my Note2 I was looking for something more flashy so I tried CM10. I guess I got something wrong cause I got constant boot loop. I thought all was lost since this is my first droid. But, went to stock, then back to Jedi. Glad this forum is here to help. This is what ultimately saved my @$$ so I am glad I didn't brick my phone and I am awaiting the Paranoid Andorid port to get done. I did install the 7100 version. nothing worked but man it sure was pretty.

Krystm said:
I am currently on JEDI 6.1 on my Note2 I was looking for something more flashy so I tried CM10. I guess I got something wrong cause I got constant boot loop. I thought all was lost since this is my first droid. But, went to stock, then back to Jedi. Glad this forum is here to help. This is what ultimately saved my @$$ so I am glad I didn't brick my phone and I am awaiting the Paranoid Andorid port to get done. I did install the 7100 version. nothing worked but man it sure was pretty.
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You wanna try the N7105 Rom, its superb but I can't use it as I just got the Allshare cast dongle and that only works with stock rom/rooted so waiting for fix, but if if u really want a good rom, I would use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575 type 3 - the blue theme is divine
I was on jedi b4

if you can get the phone to power up then you're not all lost.
I would do a md5 check of the .tar you flashed and see if it was a bad download...
even if you can't get to recovery via the button combo have you tried download mode? try to odin to something different - if you want stock rooted, try the "how to root without tripping the flash counter" thread and download that dude's root as it's an entire ROM essentially that is installed to your phone. The flash will take much longer than you are used to, so don't worry about it and resist the temptation to pull your phone or cancel the flash midway through.... it's almost 1 GB of info that is being rewritten so it'll take time.
if you can't get to DL mode you can use a jig to force the phone into it and odin from there.
hopefully that helps out.

Secure Booting Error! Can't go into recovery/boot/bootloader/download mode

Please help.
What I wanted
I was on sling v2.1 rom (mod of official LG kitkat rom) and it brought its on LGViet recovery. So I just downloaded a CM11 rom, and flashed it through recovery.
What I got
Every boot, I started getting
Code:
Secure Booting Error!
Cause : boot certification verify
And phone kept on rebooting into same LGViet recovery.
luckily, I had sling v2.1 flashable zip file so I flashed that back. I booted into android but the error kept there on boot up LG logo screen. I thought that this recovery is some borked screwed up version of clockwork mod with custom signatures etc, I installed PhilZ recovery.
Still couldnt get rid of the error and now phone always stays at LG logo screen. I can't put phone to download mode because my phone's Volume Up button is @#$%ed up and I am not sure if its pressed even though I press both buttons with all the might and force I have in the world to put it into download mode to flash official kdz and get rid of this crap.
Can anybody help me with this soft / hard brick I have got?
I know this category is made to be ignored by majority of the people. I'll really appreciate it if somebody helps me get outa this mess. Thank you

For me was very similar, it was third month of using LGE975, and i sent my G to warranty i said "i tried to do factory reset and my phone was bricked on this screen", they accepted phone and changed motherboard I tried to do hard reset, go to bootloader but still get this error, but i didin't tried go to donwload mode. I really don't know how to repair this error. I guess if you can't go to download mode, you shoud sent phone to warranty.
Sorry if my english grammar was poor

I think all you need to do is keep trying to go on download mode. If you cant, go to any repair shops to fix that buttons

dark_prince said:
Please help.
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Shutdown the phone completely (hold power for 15-20s). Hold both vol buttons then plug the usb cable to a power source (could be your computer or your charger). DO NOT PRESS ANYTHING ELSE.
I know it doesn't sound very helpful but it's very hard to get the combination right. Took me 20 tries every time.

I got it in like 50th try. Almost all the finger tips of my both hands hurt so bad.
Reverted to offical GB, FreeGee'd, CWM'd and installed MOKEE right away...
The horrible button behavior is a pain in the ***!
My kind thanks to all of ya for keeping me motivated to press them damn buttons

dark_prince said:
I got it in like 50th try. Almost all the finger tips of my both hands hurt so bad.
Reverted to offical GB, FreeGee'd, CWM'd and installed MOKEE right away...
The horrible button behavior is a pain in the ***!
My kind thanks to all of ya for keeping me motivated to press them damn buttons
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Quick and easy solution for secure booting error is teenybin. It unbricks your device in like 20 seconds, no need to flash kdz.
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[Q] T989 stuck on samsung logo - no power button

hey guys,
I was on 4.1.2 I had a "NO SIM" issue so i decided to try to root and flash 4.4 rom (was using touch recovery 2.7.0.0 all the way)
then it got stuck on samsung logo, I need to know if it's possible to boot RECOVERY MODE either FROM DOWNLOAD MODE or some touch/vol buttons way to boot into recovery, I have tried everything within my knowledge, I start the phone by sliding the battery out and in while USB plugged. or into download mode by holding both VOL buttons. I need to get into recovery and do a full wipe so I can do a fresh jelly bean 4.1.2 again.
thanks!

troolplay said:
hey guys,
I was on 4.1.2 I had a "NO SIM" issue so i decided to try to root and flash 4.4 rom (was using touch recovery 2.7.0.0 all the way)
then it got stuck on samsung logo, I need to know if it's possible to boot RECOVERY MODE either FROM DOWNLOAD MODE or some touch/vol buttons way to boot into recovery, I have tried everything within my knowledge, I start the phone by sliding the battery out and in while USB plugged. or into download mode by holding both VOL buttons. I need to get into recovery and do a full wipe so I can do a fresh jelly bean 4.1.2 again.
thanks!
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Are you saying that your power button doesn't work or what? Also, this belongs in q&a. I'll ask a moderator to move it.
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I'd fix the power button first. Then the rest is easy. You're in for many headaches with a bad power button. Plus, if it acts up while flashing anything, you could be in real trouble.

it's a little urgent on needing the phone to use it, thats why am digging into this. the button wont be here until at least wednesday 13th.
but yeah i guess i'll wait
thanks for your responds guys!

[Q] Rooted S4 stuck on booting screen.

Hi everyone. I've been meaning to sell my old S4 for awhile now and I haven't been keeping up with the root scene, so clearly I might have screwed something up. I was originally running my S4 rooted with Hyperdrive S15 (Android 4.3) with TWRP + Safestrap 3.71. I deleted the hyperdrive slot and booted into the stock ROM. After that, I used TWRP to wipe everything (dalvik cache/cache/data/factory reset) then after rebooting the phone, it just stays loads up the "Samsung" Screen with the custom symbol under it. I've tried looking at guides online to try to unbrick/fix this phone, but still have no idea what to do. I've tried booting it into download mode, but for some reason, it only goes into recovery mode (I do Vol Up + Home + Power, then as soon as it vibrates, I don't press the power button anymore). I was trying to use Odin but I can't get it to go into download mode, so when I plug it in, Odin doesn't see it. Can anyone give me some ideas/info on how to fix this?
EDIT: And I posted in the wrong section.....sorry guys. Can a mod move/close this one?

ma70ent said:
Hi everyone. I've been meaning to sell my old S4 for awhile now and I haven't been keeping up with the root scene, so clearly I might have screwed something up. I was originally running my S4 rooted with Hyperdrive S15 (Android 4.3) with TWRP + Safestrap 3.71. I deleted the hyperdrive slot and booted into the stock ROM. After that, I used TWRP to wipe everything (dalvik cache/cache/data/factory reset) then after rebooting the phone, it just stays loads up the "Samsung" Screen with the custom symbol under it. I've tried looking at guides online to try to unbrick/fix this phone, but still have no idea what to do. I've tried booting it into download mode, but for some reason, it only goes into recovery mode (I do Vol Up + Home + Power, then as soon as it vibrates, I don't press the power button anymore). I was trying to use Odin but I can't get it to go into download mode, so when I plug it in, Odin doesn't see it. Can anyone give me some ideas/info on how to fix this?
EDIT: And I posted in the wrong section.....sorry guys. Can a mod move/close this one?
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Have you tried posting this in the S4 forum. This is the Verizon Note 4 forum, not the S4 forum. You'll probably get more responses over there. Good luck.

Yes, i posted this over there after realizing I put this in the wrong area (haha). Sorry.