I was using the Cyanogenmod that recently went out to the Google Play market. I decided to go back to stock and tried to do a Firmware recovery in Samsung Kies. It all seemed to go fine but when it's time to start up I just hang on the Samsung logo.
I've been trying to fix it and even used Odin to flash a stock ROM (latest release from November 19th) which was successful, but I am still not having any luck getting the phone to start. It's just hanging every time I restart.
Does anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I hate to be such a noob but I could really use a few pointers.
Thanks so much
Do a factory reset in recovery
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Do a factory reset in recovery
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I don't have the stock recovery or I can't access it I think. When I hold the Vol Down + Home and power it on I get the screen that says to hit Vol Up to continue. When I do that I don't have any options, just the "Downloading" screen. It also says "Odin Mode" at the top
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I don't have the stock recovery or I can't access it I think. When I hold the Vol Down + Home and power it on I get the screen that says to hit Vol Up to continue. When I do that I don't have any options, just the "Downloading" screen. It also says "Odin Mode" at the top
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ah I see my own error. I need to use Vol Up + Home to get recovery. Trying out the suggestion now. Will report. Thank you so much for responding
jonno.n said:
ah I see my own error. I need to use Vol Up + Home to get recovery. Trying out the suggestion now. Will report. Thank you so much for responding
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Factory Reset didn't work.
The last thing I flashed using Odin was this: T999UVUEMJC_T999TMBEMJC_TMB
Not sure if that makes any difference.
jonno.n said:
Factory Reset didn't work.
The last thing I flashed using Odin was this: T999UVUEMJC_T999TMBEMJC_TMB
Not sure if that makes any difference.
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OMG after a very long boot it finally worked. Thank you so so so so much! I really was sad I bricked my phone!!!
Yeah that first boot can sometimes take a while, nice to see you got it working
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Yeah that first boot can sometimes take a while, nice to see you got it working
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Any time you do a factory reset or flash a new ROM it may take 5 to 10 minutes, and this is pretty standard. The reason why is it is booting deodexed instead of odexed I believe. The distinction is clarified in the link below.
Please see "Deodex is Slower, Then Why Bother?":
http://www.redmondpie.com/odexed-vs-deodexed-the-difference-between-the-two-android-roms-explained/
Everyone started out a noob here. The difference is that some of them persisted. Keep up the tinkering :good:.
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I have been using Cyanogen Mod for years now and have never had issues, When I saw a Official Nightly of CM10 for my SGH-T989 I figured I would flash it.
I did what I always do,
1. Created Backups for phone.
2. Used Darkside Superwipe for Both Phone and Cache
3. Installed CM10 with the corresponding Jelly Bean Gapps
When I turn my phone on now it just spins the new CM10 boot screen permanently, I cannot access Download mode but I can access a semi broken clockwork mod Recovery using the Power+Volume (Up and Down). Anything else causes the phone to vibrate every 2 seconds.
I have given it an hour or so on just BootLoop and it is never going to boot.
Is there anything I can do?
I am using CWM v.6.1.0.4
Update: If I hold down BOTH volume buttons and power + Home I can get into clockwork mod now. However it seems to freeze when doing much of anything. Very odd
Update: Looks like nothing can really be done within it. Every task freezes the phone almost instantly, When I try to restore backup I get MD5 Mismatch Errors. This task doesn't freeze the phone
Odin back to stock is your best bet. I use twrp haven't had any problems. I flashed cm 10 official about 4 hours ago and its running great
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payazo915 said:
Odin back to stock is your best bet. I use twrp haven't had any problems. I flashed cm 10 official about 4 hours ago and its running great
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How can I Odin back to stock when I cannot get to Download Mode?
Also I should note that, I only have to hold "Volume up + Volume Down + Power till I see Samsung" to reach clockwork mod. The Home key does nothing as far as I can tell
LemonFondler said:
How can I Odin back to stock when I cannot get to Download Mode?
Also I should note that, I only have to hold "Volume up + Volume Down + Power till I see Samsung" to reach clockwork mod. The Home key does nothing as far as I can tell
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Connect your USB to the PC hold vol + and vol - then plug the cable into the phone. Should take u to download mode
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payazo915 said:
Connect your USB to the PC hold vol + and vol - then plug the cable into the phone. Should take u to download mode
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Man that was silly of me, Thank you so much. If I could give you a hug right now I would hahaha So you are a fan of TWRP over Clockwork?
Mine did it too on another ROM, Sith. Supposedly the power button issue, but it was rom related...there are more and more people getting this weirdness with latest roms. I did what was mentioned above, got into ODIN...by the skin of my teeth, flashed back to stock and RAN (did not walk) to tmobile. I was able to get a PASS on odin and it would boot to the start up screen but google services and something else was force closing. I told the tmo rep that my phone was acting up and as a last ditch effort I did a full factory reset...and this is what I got. My replacement phone came in 2 days.
Good luck. I'm telling you guys, all these power button issues, boot loops etc are due to these new roms. I never had scary stuff like this on any gingerbread roms...EVER. MY replacement came with 4.04 so I'm good, staying stock until somebody figures out whats frying these phones.
LemonFondler said:
Man that was silly of me, Thank you so much. If I could give you a hug right now I would hahaha So you are a fan of TWRP over Clockwork?
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I've been using twrp for about two months and its been great. I won't go back to cwm.
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payazo915 said:
I've been using twrp for about two months and its been great. I won't go back to cwm.
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Did you just install it Via GooManager?
Used TWRP to re-flash CM10 and its perfect! Everything is working amazingly.Thanks again for your help
LemonFondler said:
Did you just install it Via GooManager?
Used TWRP to re-flash CM10 and its perfect! Everything is working amazingly.Thanks again for your help
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Yes I did it through goo. I flash my phone usually 2 or 3 times daily and have had no problems. "Knock on wood"
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I'm very comfortable with flashing and using custom roms, I've been doing this since the original Droid.
I rooted my GS3 right after I got it, and it was great until the OTA updates started coming out too quickly.
I like having root use, so I decided to flash the new blazer rom, I always liked the one for the gs2.
So I download it, put it on external SD, go to clockworkmod, nandroid backup, wipe data/factory reset twice, flashed the rom.
It won't turn on. It just buzzes, shows the samsung screen and shuts off.
Fine, it doesn't work i guess. So I go to put it back in recovery. NOTHING. just buzzes a few times, that's it.when charging while off it shows the battery icon, but when i hold volup home button and power it acts like it's going into recovery, then shuts off.
I don't know what to do I've never had an issue getting any phone into recovery.
HELP!!!!
Blazer ROM didn't brick your phone, you did.
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Odin. You're not bricked.
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hdnet1 said:
Odin. You're not bricked.
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+1 soft bricked. Use odin to reflash the custom recovery.
dragon_rckr said:
+1 soft bricked. Use odin to reflash the custom recovery.
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No way was it blazer I've used every version. Chalk this up to use error. Odin it and try again
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firstdirection said:
NOTHING. just buzzes a few times, that's it.when charging while off it shows the battery icon, but when i hold volup home button and power it acts like it's going into recovery, then shuts off.
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Did you try unplugging the phone, pull the battery, reinstall battery and then boot to recovery? If that won't work or volume down for download mode then I would say likely bricked.
epic4GEE said:
Did you try unplugging the phone, pull the battery, reinstall battery and then boot to recovery? If that won't work or volume down for download mode then I would say likely bricked.
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Nope, brick is that...a brick, does absolutly nothing, no power, no buzz, no LED, no nothing.
Soft brick, some sign of life, like they describe in OP "Samsung screen come up, then phone buzzes and shuts off".
rgregg504 said:
No way was it blazer I've used every version. Chalk this up to use error. Odin it and try again
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If you notice, I followed the instructions to the exact letter. so not user error.
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+1 soft bricked. Use odin to reflash the custom recovery.
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I'm looking for the file to run in odin to flash back to stock, can anyone help?
Snatched from the dev section... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
This is what you want for stock...
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dragon_rckr said:
Snatched from the dev section... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492
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lol thanks, I tried to odin the clockworkmod .tar, I put it in the pda section of odin, flashed, it passed. still no recovery though! I hold volup home and power until the samsung screen, there is the little blue writing in the top left corner telling me it's booting to recovery but then the screen goes dark, and tries to boot system.
firstdirection said:
lol thanks, I tried to odin the clockworkmod .tar, I put it in the pda section of odin, flashed, it passed. still no recovery though! I hold volup home and power until the samsung screen, there is the little blue writing in the top left corner telling me it's booting to recovery but then the screen goes dark, and tries to boot system.
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If you took any OTA, Samsung patched the stock recovery to rewrite itself everytime it boots. I suggest you odin VALEN (LEN stock 100% stock), and start the rooting process all over again. Look up QBKing77's videos on youtube on how to unroot SGS3 and how to root it and you'll be back to where you want to be.
Blazer didnt brick your phone. You did by accepting the consequences of flashing a 3rd party rom on your device. the warnings are in post 1 of his thread
Overstew said:
If you took any OTA, Samsung patched the stock recovery to rewrite itself everytime it boots. I suggest you odin VALEN (LEN stock 100% stock), and start the rooting process all over again. Look up QBKing77's videos on youtube on how to unroot SGS3 and how to root it and you'll be back to where you want to be.
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Ok i flashed a few things through odin, and finally got cwm installed. I re-flashed Blazer and it still does the boot loop thing. But... CWM is still there. I'm just gonna go back to stock. I'm downloading L710VPALI3_stock_unrooted(ics)7z.crdownload and plan to odin it when my ****ty internet connection finally downloads it.
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stu5797 said:
Blazer didnt brick your phone. You did by accepting the consequences of flashing a 3rd party rom on your device. the warnings are in post 1 of his thread
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The point is that when I flashed that rom, the phone stopped working. period. I understand he isn't liable for anything that happened. but it doesn't mean his rom didn't cause the problem.
I think it's great there are people helping with the issue. You on the other hand came to point fingers. thanks?
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The point is that when I flashed that rom, the phone stopped working. period. I understand he isn't liable for anything that happened. but it doesn't mean his rom didn't cause the problem.
I think it's great there are people helping with the issue. You on the other hand came to point fingers. thanks?
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Have you checked the md5 checksum of the download? You may have a bad copy downloaded.
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nabbed said:
Have you checked the md5 checksum of the download? You may have a bad copy downloaded.
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I think whoever said that if i had ever accepted an OTA update a few comments ago hit the nail on the head. my kids were playing with the phone and accepted it about a week ago. it didn't work obviously, but i guess it re-wrote something that is causing this issue. I'm going back to stock whenever the VPALEN stock rom is done downloading. It seems sprint or google or samsung doesn't like us to mess with the phones, and keeps putting out "fixes" for people who have rooted. it'd be nice to watch my movies on there without worrying about the drm but at this point I'd just like my too damn expensive phone back lol.
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Have you checked the md5 checksum of the download? You may have a bad copy downloaded.
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This is exactly what I was about to suggest. File corruption is actually quite common and you can get a bad download just by downloading a file straight to your phone. Try re-downloading the file on PC, then transfer it to the device.
Was using the Galaxy S3 toolkit to update cwm, went to flash an AOSP rom intended for d2att models, went to reboot the device... It flashes the samsung logo briefly then sits at a black screen with a solid amber LED. ODIN does not see it, my PC sees the device but I can't flash anything at all. Can't get to download mode either holding the power and any combination of the volume keys does nothing. Someone please help point me in the right direction to fix this. Thanks in advance.
If or PC sees it u could check and see if ADB sees it and maybe wipe and flash from there
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Download mode is Vol down + home + power. Can you get into recovery?
Thanks. I can only get into download mode at the moment. I'm downloading the stock firmware now and going to try flashing it in ODIN. Hopefully I'll get something to work here.
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Thanks. I can only get into download mode at the moment. I'm downloading the stock firmware now and going to try flashing it in ODIN. Hopefully I'll get something to work here.
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Sounds good. Keep us posted.
Update cwm in rom manager next time
ODIN passed the flash. How long should the first boot take?
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ODIN passed the flash. How long should the first boot take?
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If it takes longer than 10 or so minutes, pull the battery, replace and booting into stock recovery. Wipe data and cache. Reboot
It take bit longer than normal but it should boot within a minute or two
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Pbwizkid said:
It take bit longer than normal but it should boot within a minute or two
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It's common to have to pull the battery and wipe data in recovery after flashing stock in odin
I have been trying to root my GS4 since Friday. It will not work. I have the Tmobile version M919.
I did the motochopper one on my Main Win7 computer it fails.
Did it it on the netbook win 7 failed.
Did it on the mac and it failed.
So, I decided to do the oden thing. Well I get to where it says passed. But when I try to boot into recovery it is the android recovery and not CWM. What the heck is going on. Ben at this for 3 days and it is driving me crazy. A friend of mine just got the ATT one. I sent him the info to root it on the mac he did it within 10 min. Mine won't do it. I am wondering if Tmobile has something to do with this. I got an update from them a few days ago.
Anyone have info to fix this problem or is it just me? The only other possible thing that I can think of is this. I have a GS2 and it is rooted. I signed in with my google info on the GS4 which brought some of my rooted apps and some of my superuser, rootchecker and stuff lilke that. Would that stop it from rooting? Sorry for the misspelling.
Jason
what firmware do u have? because the 2 different fW have 2 different root methods???
movieaddict said:
what firmware do u have? because the 2 different fW have 2 different root methods???
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The build number is: JDQ39.M919UVUAMDL. From what I saw most people had they didn't have an L at the end but rather an A.
I have a rooted GS3, S2 but this phone man what a pita. But I know it should be super easy.
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The build number is: JDQ39.M919UVUAMDL. From what I saw most people had they didn't have an L at the end but rather an A.
I have a rooted GS3, S2 but this phone man what a pita. But I know it should be super easy.
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There is a different method for your build on this forum
This should be the root method for you if you updated it. Hope it helps you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268880
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This should be the root method for you if you updated it. Hope it helps you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268880
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Thanks guys I will check this link out and see what happens. I will post back when I find out.
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Thanks guys I will check this link out and see what happens. I will post back when I find out.
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I clicked on the link and realized I already did this one. Mostly all day was on this one. I can get through the oden part but I can not get it to boot into cwm. Only the android recovery. I did try and flash the file from there but it fails. That is where I got stuck at.
What buttons are you holding down at start up?
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Android_Monsters said:
What buttons are you holding down at start up?
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Volume Up, Home Key, Power till s4 appears. Did the volume down plus power but that is the download mode.
haapen the same to me
To install recovery go to find (OUDHS Download Recovery TAR) and flashing with Odin 3.07 after install oudhs recovery go find (ROOT_M919UVUAMDL.zip) and install in oudhs recovery
Khmer123 said:
1. Download (oudhs Download Recovery TAR) and flashing with Odin 3.07 and
2.use OUDHS recovery to flashing (ROOT_M919UVUAMDL.zip)
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Ok let me try that. Just a sec.
partexn received
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Ok let me try that. Just a sec.
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Showed it passed. It rebooted. I chose shut down. Pulled cord out volume up, home button power and the android system recovery comes up. Did this 3 times as far as trying to get into the recovery. I don't get it. Should I do a factory reset on the phone or something just to pull my root checking app, super user stuff off there. Also I did run the zip file a few times earlier today. It did something weird. After the phone rebooted it just kept playing this music over and over. Sounded like upbeat church music I would hear on a Sunday morning.
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Showed it passed. It rebooted. I chose shut down. Pulled cord out volume up, home button power and the android system recovery comes up. Did this 3 times as far as trying to get into the recovery. I don't get it. Should I do a factory reset on the phone or something just to pull my root checking app, super user stuff off there. Also I did run the zip file a few times earlier today. It did something weird. After the phone rebooted it just kept playing this music over and over. Sounded like upbeat church music I would hear on a Sunday morning.
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Do this turn off your phone and then turn it back on and hold only volume up until the recovery show up
Khmer123 said:
Do this turn off your phone and then turn it back on and hold only volume up until the recovery show up
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Same thing. Android system Recovery in Blue.
Outrung2 said:
Same thing. Android system Recovery in Blue.
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Are you letting it boot into android and then trying to boot into recovery?
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Outrung2 said:
Same thing. Android system Recovery in Blue.
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Are you letting it boot into android and then trying to boot into recovery?
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The phone is off. I push down volume up, home button down and then hit the power button. It comes up galaxy s4 and then I let off the power button and about that time the android recovery comes up. Happens every single time. I have rooted every single phone that I have had. I used to work at a cell phone shop here in Dallas. I am going to make some calls tomorrow and see if I can find someone else to root it and see if they have the same problems. But this should be a no brainer I would think. I just can't figure out why it is not working.
Since nothing is working I just did this.
I reset the phone. Created a new gmail and drop box account. Ran odin on it. Restarted it and same thing again. Just boots into Android Recovery.
it happen the same picture as me yesterday!
let start over from beginning.
1.first factory reset
2.Download and install (UVUAMDL Official TAR) and flashing with Odin 3.07 from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
3. Download and install (oudhs Download Recovery TAR) and flashing with Odin 3.07 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260031
4. download (ROOT_M919UVUAMDL.zip) from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268880 and install in oudhs Recovery
this should do it!
I used odin method....like the s3....once u flash the.recovery u need to pull the battery not reboot...then hold up.on the.volume after putting the battery back and hitting the power button...soon as u see rebooting recovery you can let go of the volume up
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Ok, I am in big trouble. I was flashing a new rom which needed me to switch to CWM as a recovery. I thought I had flashed it correctly but when I booted to recovery all it does now is stay on the Samsung logo over and over. The volume up, center button, and power button sequence will not load the phone into default recovery. I can use the volume down sequence to get it into odin download mode. I am a mac user but I went to friends house to use a pc. I downloaded Odin, downloaded drivers for Samsung, downloaded stock tar file. Odin recognizes the phone when I open it; or at least I think it does, it shows a com port selection in yellow which goes away when I unplug the usb cable. So I go to PDA and select the tar file I downloaded and then odin runs for a second then says all threads completed, success 0, failed 1. I have downloaded two different tar files each time making sure I have the correct one for my ATT model. I then tried the Kies method but Kies will not connect to the phone. What can I do now? Why will odin not work? Please help. Thank you
Factory reset on your phone
How can I factory reset if it won't boot into recovery using volume up sequence?
Vol up home then power
We been getting a lot of that lately
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Thank you for verifying, but as I said I can't get the phone to do anything when I do the volume up, home, and power button.
Just a black screen? No response at all?
No the phone just does a continuous loop of Samsung logo. I can do the volume down sequence to get into download mode. But no luck hitting volume up, then home, then power. Also no luck hitting them all at the same time. I read in another post that as long as I can still get to download mode there is still hope.
Keep trying u are just doing it wrong... what I do is in this sequence, go vol up home powere then hold for a bit then release power then release other 2
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No the phone just does a continuous loop of Samsung logo. I can do the volume down sequence to get into download mode. But no luck hitting volume up, then home, then power. Also no luck hitting them all at the same time. I read in another post that as long as I can still get to download mode there is still hope.
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When galaxy note ll logo shows release volume up, home and power button then just wait a bit it will take you to recovery.
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I really think that this may not be working for me. I have been trying for a while now. I am pretty sure I know how to do it because before all this happened I believe I booted into Twrp that way before. Any ideas on why Odin won't work?
linkinyeah said:
I really think that this may not be working for me. I have been trying for a while now. I am pretty sure I know how to do it because before all this happened I believe I booted into Twrp that way before. Any ideas on why Odin won't work?
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What Odin version you are using?
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jon3sh said:
What Odin version you are using?
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I have tried several, odin3 1.85 and Odin 3 .07
linkinyeah said:
I have tried several, odin3 1.85 and Odin 3 .07
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Dunno man wont hurt to reinstall drivers again
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2038555
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Yeah did that also. I have been reading about jtag. Am I at that point? Is it possible to not be able to boot into recovery if I am able to get to download ?
linkinyeah said:
Yeah did that also. I have been reading about jtag. Am I at that point? Is it possible to not be able to boot into recovery if I am able to get to download ?
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Try flashing CF root via Odin using pc and see if it can get recovery back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980644
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linkinyeah said:
Yeah did that also. I have been reading about jtag. Am I at that point? Is it possible to not be able to boot into recovery if I am able to get to download ?
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No JTAG....
CF auto root is a great idea....g
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No JTAG....
CF auto root is a great idea....g
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Right jtag so extreme and only use or do that when you get hard brick.
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jon3sh said:
Right jtag so extreme and only use or do that when you get hard brick.
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This ^^^^^^....g
Ok I will have to give it a try tomorrow. I only have a Mac, so I will have to go somewhere to us a PC. Wish there was a an Odin for Mac. Hope it works. So bricked is only when phone won't turn on at all?