Phone can't reboot with out sdcard boot.IMG on it? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

My phone was hard bricked yesterday. After I flashed ROM with out wipe data and system. Phone was dead I tried everything by pressing three fingers pull battery so on so on.
Final I use unbrick img file write on sdcard . and I insert on my phone then pressing home, volume up and power after three times phone reboot it.
Now if I pull out sdcard with unbricked boot.IMG on it phone can't reboot.
For more info. I did restore from my nandroid backup. Still the same . any help would great appreciate.
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After a hard-brick like yours (and mine as well) some part of the phone's difficult-to-fix/access memory eMMC is damaged or corrupted. I recommend using a .pit file to partition the phone's internal memory, then follow up with a stock ROM flash. And if you've got 4.3/the MK3 OTA, only flash 3.3+ ROMs.

That's because you never Odin flashed a stock tar. You need to boot into download mode with the sdcard and then flash a stock tar. Otherwise you will still have corrupt partitions on your device and it will not boot without the sdcard which has the proper data.

Cnexus thank you so much always you did great job. Can I use mobile Odin? Do you have one Odin tar ROM can't find sorry.
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CNexus said:
That's because you never Odin flashed a stock tar. You need to boot into download mode with the sdcard and then flash a stock tar. Otherwise you will still have corrupt partitions on your device and it will not boot without the sdcard which has the proper data.
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Never mind I found all . My phone niw bacj to normal MD4. Thank you Cnexus
evobb10 said:
Cnexus thank you so much always you did great job. Can I use mobile Odin? Do you have one Odin tar ROM can't find sorry.
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Q: lost access to recovery after nightly flash

So, I flashed CM10 nightly 11/8. Dirty flash over a previous nightly, just cache and dalvik wipe. Now I can't boot to recovery, it just hangs at the cyan boot logo. Was using TWRP and I made sure to click the inject twrp box. Everything else works well and normally, aside from no recovery. I know the correct answer is to odin to stock and start fresh. However, does anybody know of a way to re-flash twrp or clockwork without access to recovery. I would like a quick temp fix for a few days if there is one. Thanks in advance!
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U can just use odin to flash cwm. Look for the 5.x version thread for cwm and there's a .tar flashable file somewhere there. Just flash it in odin and you should be good. Since ur already rooted it should stick.
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I'm no Odin pro. Do I need the victory pit file too? Also what box do I put the cwm tar ball in? I appreciate the help.
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propjockey said:
I'm no Odin pro. Do I need the victory pit file too? Also what box do I put the cwm tar ball in? I appreciate the help.
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No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not flash the tar file for cwm, that is bml only... there is no .tar for an mtd recovery for this phone... sorry, but if you lost recovery on mtd, sadly the only way to get it back is to odin to stock...
Word. Thanks for the save. I didn't think of the bml/mtd issue. I guess no short cuts this time. Thanks again guys.
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Lol sorry I forgot about that.
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flastnoles11 said:
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not flash the tar file for cwm, that is bml only... there is no .tar for an mtd recovery for this phone... sorry, but if you lost recovery on mtd, sadly the only way to get it back is to odin to stock...
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Ya it doesn't work if you're on mtd, you'll get error on cwm and can't flash anything, even you flash twrp, you'll get error
One solution..
Odin to stock and odin cwm again
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I think there IS (hopefully) a way of flashing MTD recovery without returning to stock. Maybe... grab a recovery.img from the ROM package, put it in SD card, and go to Terminal Emulator on phone. Then...
Command:
su
cd /sdcard
flash_image recovery recovery.img
This works on my good'ol (sold) G1 and Milestone... but don't know if this works on MTD. Anyway, give it a shot
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Well, I ended up Odining back to stock and starting over. After a crappy night of a bad cable and battery CPR, I got it working. I was using TWRP and I suspect that something went wrong in the re-injection process. All is well now. Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions
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N7100 does not boot past start up screen

Hi All,
Couple days ago I tried to flash my note2 with mobile odin back to stock rom but something went wrong and since I have not been able to get past the welcome screen *Samsung Galaxy Note 2*. I can get into a recovery screen but I am unable to choose a new rom to flash with.
I ve tried to flash it with odin 3.07 and via kies but no joy.
At this stage I am quite desperate to get this resolved. Can anyone help me?
Download correct stock rom to pc. Mount SD Card in recovery. Transfer file. flash from recovery.
Flash stock rom via pc odin
make a nandroid bake up as soon as you root your phone next time.
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timmyk101 said:
Download correct stock rom to pc. Mount SD Card in recovery. Transfer file. flash from recovery.
Flash stock rom via pc odin
make a nandroid bake up as soon as you root your phone next time.
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Unfortunately I do not have that option. I only have volume up to continue or volume down to restart. When I go volume up the phone goes into download mode.
Yeah. Then you have to flash stock firmware.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Yeah. Then you have to flash stock firmware.
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Thank you so much! I flashed it with a stock rom and then triangled it and now its working again
Cheers!
U just needed to factory reseted it and would also have done the job xD
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AskinSavascisi said:
U just needed to factory reseted it and would also have done the job xD
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He would have lost his data then. Flashing doesn't remove data.
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AskinSavascisi said:
U just needed to factory reseted it and would also have done the job xD
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True but i had to use Odin and every guideline said the filed had to color yellow while for me it stayed blue but i figured heck at the moment it's just a paperweight so I don't have a lot to loose.
Now Rooting it again and placing my nandroid back up back and I am all sorted.
Thank you again!
UtkarshGupta said:
He would have lost his data then. Flashing doesn't remove data.
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I lost my data anyway I had backed it up with titanium but ran into problems restoring it... Lesson learned to create an image of my Android once I got it sorted again.
Thanks
I had the same problem and almost had a heart attack thinking I bricked my phone when downgrading back to 4.1.1... Needless to say I just had to do a factory reset in recovery and it worked fine

[Q] HELP, I Soft Bricked my SIII (I747M)

Hey guys i'm new to the forums and looking for some help.
I've rooted my S3 succesfully and installed CWM as well as flashed the updates for it, but after flashing the CM 10.1 ROM i cant't seem to get passed the CM logo, the screen just stays black. I've been looking through the forums and managed to find some stock ROMs but for some reason Odin(3.0.7) keeps giving me a fail message every time I try to do it.
Please help me I would just like to start from scratch and give it another go, is there any sort of guide to just reset everything either using Odin or from recovery?
Thanks
Flash a stock type ROM from development section or try to download another cm type rom . didnyoubtry anything else before you flashed cm and after
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hednik said:
Flash a stock type ROM from development section or try to download another cm type rom . didnyoubtry anything else before you flashed cm and after
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I've tried flashing a few stock roms and they all fail using odin, am I doing something wrong? And i can't flash from recovery because ic ant access internal storage while its stuck at logo.
To use Odin:
Usb in the back of computer (#1 on a laptop)
Reboot computer
Phone in download mode (volume down+ home+ power)
Run Odin as administrator
Use a known good cable
After flashing back to stock, when you get hung up on boot:
Pull battery, wait 2 minutes, reinsert
Boot into recovery with button combo, factory reset, reboot.
mrhaley30705 said:
Boot into recovery with button combo, factory reset, reboot.
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When I try this it just reboots back into CM logo and again at the black screen, I am wiping all caches and formatting every directory.
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elyjah said:
I've tried flashing a few stock roms and they all fail using odin, am I doing something wrong? And i can't flash from recovery because ic ant access internal storage while its stuck at logo.
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Are they in the .tar format ? You can't flash .zip ones in Odin. You can get them from the no tripping flash counter root method
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mrhaley30705 said:
To use Odin:
Usb in the back of computer (#1 on a laptop)
Reboot computer
Phone in download mode (volume down+ home+ power)
Run Odin as administrator
Use a known good cable
After flashing back to stock, when you get hung up on boot:
Pull battery, wait 2 minutes, reinsert
Boot into recovery with button combo, factory reset, reboot.
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I've restarted and ran as admin, tried multiple ports and still getting the fail message when I click start on Odin with my md5 file under the PDA slot, could it be a bad file?
And you have to extract the file one time after downloaded.
Maybe try using Odin v1.85?
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mrhaley30705 said:
And you have to extract the file one time after downloaded.
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What do you mean? I have a stock on but its in .zip, the md5 is the one not working and I have already extracted it once.
elyjah said:
What do you mean? I have a stock on but its in .zip, the md5 is the one not working and I have already extracted it once.
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Okay have you tried putting a rom in an ext SD card sand flashing from there ?
Sounds like you are using Odin fine, maybe a bad download ?
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hednik said:
Okay have you tried putting a rom in an ext SD card sand flashing from there ?
Sounds like you are using Odin fine, maybe a bad download ?
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Yes I loaded some stocks onto an external SD, but couldent figure out how to flash from them, can only seem to access the internal storage using recovery?
With twrp I know how but I haven't used cwm in forever.
I think its install zip from school card and then choose zip from ext SD card
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hednik said:
With twrp I know how but I haven't used cwm in forever.
I think its install zip from school card and then choose zip from ext SD card
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Yea I can't find it, not sure what to do next.
I tried using Odin 1.8.5 but still no luck.
Does anyone have any links for the canadian stock ROMs? Maybe I could try a few and see if any work?
elyjah said:
Yea I can't find it, not sure what to do next.
I tried using Odin 1.8.5 but still no luck.
Does anyone have any links for the canadian stock ROMs? Maybe I could try a few and see if any work?
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Stock rooted Canadian to flash in Odin is in the rooting walkthrough. So you can't get into recovery at all ?
Tried a different cord ?
Canadian gs3 have a different button combo I think.
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Stock rooted Canadian to flash in Odin is in the rooting walkthrough. So you can't get into recovery at all ?
Odin does recognize your phone ?
Canadian gs3 have a different button combo I think.
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hednik said:
Stock rooted Canadian to flash in Odin is in the rooting walkthrough. So you can't get into recovery at all ?
Tried a different cord ?
Canadian gs3 have a different button combo I think.
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Wow ok I managed to flash TWRP using Odin, then was able to flash a stock rom through my external SD and it seems to have brought it back to stock, weird how odin could not do it itself, anyways thank you so much for your help.
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Wow ok I managed to flash TWRP using Odin, then was able to flash a stock rom through my external SD and it seems to have brought it back to stock, weird how odin could not do it itself, anyways thank you so much for your help.
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No problem at all. I find twrp a bit more intuitive to use and that odd cwm didn't find ext card. Glad it worked.
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[Request]Full Odin sock Rom with 4 files (GT-N7100)

Hi
Anybody have a sock Rom Odin flashable with 4 files for the galaxy note 2 international version . I have 16GB for the sd card
Pit
Pda
Phone
Csc
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I don't think you have any extra benefit with four files. Except that will wipe your device.
you Can get pit file, if you wish from toolbox on my signature.
Though if i have remember correctly last btu is having multiples.
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dr.ketan said:
I don't think you have any extra benefit with four files. Except that will wipe your device.
you Can get pit file, if you wish from toolbox on my signature.
Though if i have remember correctly last btu is having multiples.
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The reason why it's that I want to fix my imei problem I want to revert back to an older modem . Someone in thunder roar Rom thread have a stock Rom with 4 files and it fixed his imei
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May be it's coincidence.
If you flash stock rom + wipe, it have nothing less than multifile flashing.
Flashing pit you can optionally add, but have no meaning if you don't have messed partition.
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dr.ketan said:
May be it's coincidence.
If you flash stock rom + wipe, it have nothing less than multifile flashing.
Flashing pit you can optionally add, but have no meaning if you don't have messed partition.
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I know i'm going off-topic but i have a querry unsolved
i messed up my note 2 corputed the efs and now it's not booting and it's stuck in the boot loop wiping data installing stock rom doesn't works for me and adb shell doesn't recognizes the phone in recovery can you help me i just want to reset my counter so that i can claim my warranty.
Have you flash stock rom with pit and then wipe from recovery?
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[Q] flashing a rom without bricking?

I cant flash a rom and have it work. I have tried several ROMS like aokp, jedi, smooth, jellybeans, etc and they almost always brick. Jedi worked but google services crashed back to back to back to the point where i couldnt even use the phone. does anyone know of a 4.3 rom that works on att sgh-i317?? i basically went down the list on galaxynote2root.com and tried them all but no success.
I have root, have TWRP installed and flash the rom and it bricks. i factory reset first, then install and nothing.
any ideas?
All of the roms on this forum work.. What are your exact steps?
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Kreateablaze said:
All of the roms on this forum work.. What are your exact steps?
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Have they been tried on sgh-i317?
I did these exact steps:
Rooted phone and installed TWRP recovery
put AOKP Rom on SD card and booted into recovery mode
Wiped/Factory reset through recovery
rebooted into recovery
installed AOKP ROM
booted and bricked- hangs at "X" aokp bootup screen
Have you installed gapps after flashing an aosp rom? I am running carbon rom right now... Earlier today I was on aokp. I have used them all and I have a I317. An att note 2
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Kreateablaze said:
Have you installed gapps after flashing an aosp rom? I am running carbon rom right now... Earlier today I was on aokp. I have used them all and I have a I317. An att note 2
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does not having the gapps installed prevent the phone from booting? ive booted a rom before without gapps and it booted.
was there something wrong with my steps? did you use the aokp milestone or nightlies? where did you get the carbon rom? its all good?
I used the latest aokp nightly. And right now I'm running the newest carbon nightly. I got it from the op of the carbon thread.
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I used the latest aokp nightly. And right now I'm running the newest carbon nightly. I got it from the op of the carbon thread.
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What were your steps? what recovery were you using? im just so confused why my phone bricks every time
I'm using the latest version of twrp recovery. Try updating it?
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Download your rom and gapps again using a PC...
Then place the files to your SD using a card adapter if no USB connection is possible...
Then fully wipe the device again from within the latest version of TWRP recovery and flash the new downloads ...
You may have a bad flash ...and you are not bricked...g
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gregsarg said:
Download your rom and gapps again using a PC...
Then place the files to your SD using a card adapter if no USB connection is possible...
Then fully wipe the device again from within the latest version of TWRP recovery and flash the new downloads ...
You may have a bad flash ...and you are not bricked...g
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I did those exact steps and it did not work. i tried flashing pac man rom the last time and it got stuck in a boot loop too. I think there are some files that are corrupt or some temp files somewhere that are preventing a successful flash. my binary flash count was 9. and that was just on this run, ive tried flashing several times before. each time the only way to recover it is hooking the phone up to a pc and using kies to flash back to stock firmware. this sucks.
What version of twrp are you using? I have never had this issue you are having and I have flashed every rom on this forum for our device.
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I did those exact steps and it did not work. i tried flashing pac man rom the last time and it got stuck in a boot loop too. I think there are some files that are corrupt or some temp files somewhere that are preventing a successful flash. my binary flash count was 9. and that was just on this run, ive tried flashing several times before. each time the only way to recover it is hooking the phone up to a pc and using kies to flash back to stock firmware. this sucks.
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9 counts ??
Uh....yeh...not right ...
Have you messed with device partitions in ODIN ??
If so...something is definitely wrong ...
At this point ...you may want to consider a full return to stock and allow the PIT to properly restore your partitions..
Just follow the return to stock guide (sticky )...in the general section ..
Once restored to stock with a corrected flash counter you can begin again using CF auto root as your root method..
It sounds as if you have root issues and possible partition damage...
One other step you can try first is to boot into download mode and re-root using CF...
That may help....but certainly won't hurt anything...then attempt a clean flash again..
If it fails ...then the return to stock and rooting again seems prudent ...g
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Ok ill try that. When I do the sticky method is that different than using kies to flash to stock? Kies is supposed to wipe everything and reload stock firmware. I agree the partitions are corrupt somewhere
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igotta67bug said:
Ok ill try that. When I do the sticky method is that different than using kies to flash to stock? Kies is supposed to wipe everything and reload stock firmware. I agree the partitions are corrupt somewhere
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Are u wiping data and system as well in recovery. If you're running TW and u switch to AOSP without wiping everything.....the results most likely wouldn't b pretty
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I'm doing a factory reset--> "swipe to wipe". Do I need to do something else?
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Kies is not the method I use in returning to stock...as I don't trust it..
Odin is my first choice ...
Using Odin to flash a factory rom will wipe everything as well ...and is far more reliable ...IMHO...g
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gregsarg said:
9 counts ??
Uh....yeh...not right ...
Have you messed with device partitions in ODIN ??
If so...something is definitely wrong ...
At this point ...you may want to consider a full return to stock and allow the PIT to properly restore your partitions..
Just follow the return to stock guide (sticky )...in the general section ..
Once restored to stock with a corrected flash counter you can begin again using CF auto root as your root method..
It sounds as if you have root issues and possible partition damage...
One other step you can try first is to boot into download mode and re-root using CF...
That may help....but certainly won't hurt anything...then attempt a clean flash again..
If it fails ...then the return to stock and rooting again seems prudent ...g
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OK, so i followed these steps perfectly and it did not work. GOt Stuck in a boot loop again. something is corrupt. i used the latest version of clockwork mod and tried to install the latest AOKP nightlies. :crying:
Alright ...
Do you mean that you returned to stock ??
And have rooted again ...??
If yes ..we can dig deeper ...and if not ...proceed with full unroot...g
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I used the sticky on turning your phone back to stock which used odin. I followed that list perfectly which said to flash stock using odin, root using cf then using triangle away, then super user to fully unroot. Then I installed clockword mod recovery, booted to recovery mode, cleared all cache and davlik and factory reset again, then installed the aokp and it got stuck in a boot loop
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Here's what I do with twrp when flashing a rom.
Go to wipe menu and then advanced wipe and select dalvik, cache, data, system and internal(optional). I do it three times to make sure. then flash your rom with gapps (if aosp)

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