I'm a noob.
Operation aborted flashing ROM. I think I didn't have the right version of CWM (5.5.0.4). Anyway, I was an idiot and didn't have a backup, so if I restart my phone is hard-bricked correct?
Also AFAIK phones can't charge in recovery mode so I only have till the battery runs out (started on 50%).
I took out the SD Card, and I'm trying to put a working ROM on and install that so my phone doesn't brick, what ROM should I load up? any advice? A while ago I got help on the same issue, but since then the link is dead.
First take a deep breath and don't panic.
If you have wiped your previous Rom (i.e. formatted the /system partition) and now the new Rom won't flash then don't worry. The Phone will still charge.
True if you reboot, the phone will be stuck at Samsung logo. But if you turn it off completely, chances are, it will charge just fine. Now as to the Recovery, just boot into Download mode and Odin Flash correct recovery. If you want, you can put correct rom in your External sd and flash it too.
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My I747M started acting strange and failing on installs from the play store. It had twrp 2.6.0.0 and cm10.2 on it.
I ran a nand restore and it didnt fix the issue, so I rebooted into twrp recovery mode and went to wipe everything except external sd since thats where my downloads are. It started then the phone rebooted instantly.
Now all i can get is it will boot to download mode, but oden never shows that its writing anything to the phone, the % stays at zero, if i unhook the usb cable it just says it couldn't detect the phone no matter how long I wait. kies does the exact same thing.
If I try to boot back into recovery mode in twrp it just shows the twrp screen then resets. If I try a normal boot it resets at the cm boot screen just before the animation screen.
is it bricked for good?
Update: I downloaded twrp and flashed using odin. thats the only thing that will flash in download mode, from twrp I can flash a rom and it boots up and the phone works.
In download mode kies see's but cant connect to my phone for a factory restore. odin see's and can flash but flashing anything other than the recovery just hangs.
In twrp when I try to restore a nandroid backup of rooted 4.1.2 touchwiz it just crashes and reboots the phone and I start with the original post issues.
Help. I think I bricked my phone. I was running S3Rx 3.0 with JB4.3 on my T999 GS3. I attempted to update the rom to its latest version 3-20-14. I made a nandroid backup. I wiped cache and dalvik and then tried to install the zip file in TWRP, but it said install failed. I tried again with same failed results. I then did a factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik, data and system. I tried to flash the zip file and it failed again. So giving up on the failed update, I then restored my nandroid backup. After the restore was complete, I rebooted the phone and it got stuck at bootup with the Samsung logo and the blue LED light. I let it sit for over 15 minutes and it was still stuck there. I powered off the phone and went back into TWRP recovery and repeated the restore and reboot again, and it was stuck at that same part for over 15 minutes. Should it take that long? I've done backups and restores in the past and I don't recall it having take that long to bootup.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Please let me know if you need more explanation. Thanks in advance.
Try using odin to update the recovery system and flashing a rom.
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It's been a long while since I used odin. I want to get the steps right before I risk further damaging my phone. Should I download odin and latest TWRP tar file to my pc. Put my phone into download mode and go thru the odin process...run as admin, placing tar file in pda... Then do I reboot into recovery mode? From there I'm not sure what to do. How do I flash a rom to my phone? Do or can I download a zip file via odin? One other option I thought of is to odin root66. So am I actually downloading 2 files via odin? Sorry for my confusion.
Ok, so I odined root66. My phone initially booted up to stock, but I got a pop up "unfortunately system ui has stopped". I went to recovery mode to do a factory reset. It took me to android system recovery. Apparently i lost my TWRP recovery. I did a factory reset and rebooted. Hallelujah!! my phone booted up into stock successfully. Whew...
Cool.
Sorry I couldnt respond earlier, I just woke up.
I always keep copies of odin flashable packages for the latest cwm and twrp recoveries just in case some craziness happens.
Ive had a similar issue when dualbooting. Recovery seemed to work 100% but one bad flash sent me into a bootloop I couldnt get out of. Booting to recovery just tried booting my corrupt 2nd rom and I had to odin cwm on to stop the boot script from locking me out of recovery.
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All part of the hazards of tinkering with the phone. It goes with the territory. But as long as I can get into download or recovery mode I believe there's always a fighting chance.
Separately I reinstalled TWRP via odin. Next will be to reflash the custom rom.
What I was trying to do: I have a stock 4.4.2 AT&T GS3 that I wanted to root, and then install Cyanogen Mod.
What I did: I flashed Auto-Root with Odin 3.10, restarted and then flashed TWRP 2.8. I then booted to TWRP and attempted to wipe/format the phone but it showed some errors along the way, I think it was something having to do being unable to mount the SD card. I then rebooted into recovery and flashed CM12 and slim Google Apps zip. When it was flashing both I got a string of errors but it said it was successful.
Where I'm at now: When I try turning the phone on (without holding any buttons down) it attempts to boot straight to the TWRP but gets stuck at the blue TeamWin screen. I'm able to get to download mode by holding down the appropriate buttons. I'm wondering if there's anything I can flash from Odin to resolve this.
I also realized I have unbacked up photos on the device, I don't think the format was successful, is there any way to recover those?
Thanks
To recover the pictures, try re-installing TWRP, boot into TWRP, and mount the partitions. Connect the phone to your computer and copy your pictures.
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I have had this happen before. Try using Odin to flash an older version of TWRP, uncheck reboot after flash and then when it is done, do a battery pull. This has gotten me back into a working TWRP to restore my previous setup. Note: You made need to go back to 2.6. Once you have gotten back up and running flash to the current TWRP with the app.
Im soft bricked I guess. I can still get into stock recovery and fastboot. I did the cwm recovery and accept method I had cm 12 and gapps on ext sd card I did a backup of stock but wiped data and cache and flashed rom and accidently hit fix root instead of no in recovery because I wasn't rooted. Everytime I turn on phone goes to dead robot. I tried to recover in stock recovery but I think since I did a backup and wiped in cwm i cant. Will I be able to recover from flashing firmware and adb. Will I be able to still charge my phone or keep it off until im ready to flash firmware? Need help
Ok guys im in some really deap ****. This is what happend
I was trying to flash my SGH-T999 with cm-2xxxxxxNIGHTLY-d2lte to get the 4.4.4kitkat upgrade. Rooting with clockworkmod using Odin V1.85 was succesfull. I got into recovery mode, wiped data factory, /cache, and /delvik cache/ and i went on to install zip from sdcard. The installation failed, tried severals times and it still fails. And when i try switching it on, it boots with the SAMSUNG Logo and goes back off, then comes back on again with a "Recovery Booting" written on the top left hand corner of the screen, and then it boots into recovery mode. When i hit Reboot System, it does same thing. I have tried downloading the recovery but my SD-Card slot seems to be damage of which the recovery needs to be put on, and more so i cant detect if the memory card i install is ready or not.
Flash twrp to the phone. Cwm has not been updated for a while.
A few months ago I flashed TWRP 2.8.7.0 using Heimdall just fine, no problems. Now I've been trying to flash the latest TWRP 3.0.2, I can't seem to get it to boot, the flash is successful. Then I reflash the older version, and it's not booting into recovery. I'm not too familiar with Samsung phones, but I've been doing this for a long time on my Moto X 2014 using ADB/Fastboot, without issues.
I was able to return to stock firmware using Odin.