I tried installing a native hotspot plugin through recovery (twrp) that was for CWM and my phone got stuck at the "Samsung Galaxy SIII" screen. I didn't know what to do so I wiped everything (I have/had no idea what I was doing) and now theres nothing on the phone at all (besides TWRP). I checked for a bootloader in terminal but there was nothing. I try flashing stock roms (such as 4.1.2 and 4.3) but got some sort of "auth" error with odin.
Before this happened my phone was running 4.3. Does anyone have any idea what to do? I need this phone. Can I save anything from the internal storage?
Are you running a 4.3 bootloader? If you are, you flash a stock rom that is older than 4.3 in Odin.
Is you phone an i747 or i747m?
i747. where can i find a 4.3 stock rom?
MikeyLevi said:
i747. where can i find a 4.3 stock rom?
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There is no AT&T 4.3 stock ROM that can be flashed via Odin because AT&T never made it available as a complete ROM, only as an OTA update. This might help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
That would help, but I have no way of getting the .zip on the phone. TWRP refuses to let me use the external SD card and I cant sideload because adb cant detect my phone.
EDIT: Got the .zip on my sd card and im using CWM but when I try to flash the .zip I get some sort of status 7 error.
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"e:Error in /storage/sdcard1/ATT_I747_UCUEMJB_StockRestore_222014.zip
(status 7)
Installation Aborted.
EDIT2hones working, this is solved! Used the guide above. Had to downgrade my version of philz touch.
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I tried to update my samasung s3 and after I did it will only boot to recovery. I tried to us ODIN but everytime it just goes to failed. I have used the pda and it just errors out. I also tried to mount it in revocery and that fails. ODIN shows it connected when I enter download mode. I think parmissions is messed up too but I don't know. Thanks
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I tried to update my samasung s3 and after I did it will only boot to recovery. I tried to us ODIN but everytime it just goes to failed. I have used the pda and it just errors out. I also tried to mount it in revocery and that fails. ODIN shows it connected when I enter download mode. I think parmissions is messed up too but I don't know. Thanks
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More details, what did you try to update to? Did you update to 4.3 prior to this problem?
yes i was on the lastest att software then went to update and now it won't boot past recovery mode. I have rooted and done custom roms in the past no problem. At this time of updating phone was bone stock with no root. I was trying to upgrade to Android 4.4 KitKat but didn't know there were different models of the S3 so I tried to install from sd card the incorrect rom. Tried the correct rom and still got an error.
I followed this tutorial http://true-android.blogspot.com/2013/12/android-442-kitkat-slimkat-rom-for-at.html but selected the wrong phone the i9300 and tried to install the wrong kitkat. Then I found the link above for the att S3 and followed it and still got an error. I feel the error is from trying to install the wrong rom a couple of times. Not it WILL NOT load past clockwork recovery
By updating to stock AT&T ROM, it would have loaded the latest bootloader onto your phone. You can't use desktop Odin to revert to stock as AT&T never released a complete stock 4.3 ROM.
Do you have the latest CWM or TWRP on your phone? If you do, you could try and do a full wipe and install a custom ROM.
My phone was 100% screwed. There was NO saving it. I did EVERYTHING that I could. So I just took it back to BestBuy and they said phone is no good and agreed to give me a new one. Just waiting on it to come in the mail.
I woke up this morning to my phone perpetually rebooting.
I was running a nightly of CM 11.
Now when I try to go into Recovery I get a screen that asks for a password. I have no idea what that password is as I did not set one. I tried wiping data to no avail. I tried flashing a new recovery via Odin this did not work (Odin said successful but the screen on the phone never showed the transfer of the file). No matter what wipe method I use in recovery it just says fail, doesn't work at all and hangs or will say it can't mount. I have searched and searched and tried and tried and I'm stuck. I even tried ADB that didn't work either. Please help!
Try flashing Philz Touch (based on CWM) over TWRP via Odin. I have always had good luck with CWM and Philz.
Download the tar version: http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2att
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Try flashing Philz Touch (based on CWM) over TWRP via Odin. I have always had good luck with CWM and Philz.
Download the tar version: http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2att
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I tried this already. I cannot flash ANYTHING via ODIN. Odin states that the process completed but the bar on the phone on the download screen never shows up to show that it has accepted a file.
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I tried this already. I cannot flash ANYTHING via ODIN. Odin states that the process completed but the bar on the phone on the download screen never shows up to show that it has accepted a file.
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Did you unchecked F . reset and unchecked auto reboot when you flashed recovery in Odin? After you flash the file you have to pull the battery then replace it and boot to recovery do not allow the phone to boot to OS or you have to flash again as your recovery will only stick if you pull the battery and boot to recovery after flashing it. After you get into it the first time all will be well with the world again you can flash your heart out.
I had twrp ask me for a password once I hit the back arrow key and told it to mount my external SD card then flashed my rom, bootloader, kernel and modem then rebooted no problem.
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Did you unchecked F . reset and unchecked auto reboot when you flashed recovery in Odin? After you flash the file you have to pull the battery then replace it and boot to recovery do not allow the phone to boot to OS or you have to flash again as your recovery will only stick if you pull the battery and boot to recovery after flashing it. After you get into it the first time all will be well with the world again you can flash your heart out.
I had twrp ask me for a password once I hit the back arrow key and told it to mount my external SD card then flashed my rom, bootloader, kernel and modem then rebooted no problem.
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This did not work. When I use ODIN all that is happening is that ODIN says it has succeeded but the little progress bar that usually shows up on the phone when you are in download mode never comes up. I did try this method though and it didn't work.
I restarted the phone in ODIN mode then opened ODIN then connected the USB cable then unchecked the two boxes you mentioned then flashed a new non TWRP recovery then waited for ODIN to say successful then the phone never showed the progress bar so I waited 2 mins until I pulled the battery then I restarted phone directly to recovery and still have the password prompt. Even after hitting cancel I cannot interact with recovery because every option I choose just says fail. I cannot even mount external sd card.
What phone do you have? What was the most recent stock ROM on your phone? Maybe you can flash a stock ROM.
There is a copy of the stock Samsung 3e recovery (which we can't use to flash zips with) I'm curious if maybe it can overwrite what you have going on? On the password screen I wasn't hitting cancel I was simply hitting the back arrow key. I will see if I have a copy of the stock recovery, just maybe you can flash it then flash another recovery after that so you can fix your phone.
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I have Samsung Galaxy S 3 At&T (d2att) SGH-I747 whichever one of those you want. The most recent stock rom on the phone was when I bought it brand new a few months after it came out. I tried installing a stock rom. I tried this using ODIN and it failed. The issue here is that TWRP somehow encrypted the entire file system so NOTHING at all in recovery works. When I use ODIN mode it never shows on my phone that it is accepting a transfer from the computer. When I tried the stock rom via ODIN method it actually failed in ODIN instead of telling me it succeeded and then just not work. It failed at the point when it says Firmware Update Start...aboot.mbn...NAND Write Start!...Complete(Write) operation failed. I am up for any suggestions but I need them to be detailed instructions because I have tried so many things I need to know what exact steps to follow.
I believe the aboot file is a bootloader. Did you ever have a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone? If you did, it probably has the stock 4.3 AT&T bootloader which cannot be downgraded without bricking the phone which means you cannot flash a ROM with an older bootloader via Odin.
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I believe the aboot file is a bootloader. Did you ever have a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone? If you did, it probably has the stock 4.3 AT&T bootloader which cannot be downgraded without bricking the phone which means you cannot flash a ROM with an older bootloader via Odin.
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To my knowledge I never had a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone. The only stock ROM to touch this phone was the one that came on it. So be specific what are you actually suggesting in this post that I do?
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To my knowledge I never had a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone. The only stock ROM to touch this phone was the one that came on it. So be specific what are you actually suggesting in this post that I do?
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I am surprised that the aboot file was giving you a problem because the bootloader can be downgraded as long as it is not a 4.3 bootloader.
Do you recall exactly which ROM was on the phone when you got it? Where did you get the stock ROM?
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I am surprised that the aboot file was giving you a problem because the bootloader can be downgraded as long as it is not a 4.3 bootloader.
Do you recall exactly which ROM was on the phone when you got it? Where did you get the stock ROM?
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It was a CM11 Nightly ROM from the very beginning of February. And before that it was a CM10.2 Stable ROM.
Which stock ROM was on your phone before you loaded a custom ROM?
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Which stock ROM was on your phone before you loaded a custom ROM?
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I have no idea. It was when I first got the phone in November of 2012.
Sounds like your phone may be running a 4.3 bootloader which means your bootloader is locked and cannot be downgraded. This may explain why you are getting errors when trying to flash Odin. There is no stock AT&T 4.3 ROM that can be flashed via Odin.
So I had 4.4 stock TouchWiz, then installed TWRP recovery and CM11. Then I wanted back to stock again but TWRP doesn't seem to want to flash anything. It just says Failed. Tried wiping everything, ended up wiping the OS... just trying to get stock back going.
You have the i747 or i747m?
Twrp cannot flash a stock ROM unless that ROM was compiled to be flashed in twrp.
If you have the 4.3 or 4.4.2 bootloader, do not attempt to downgrade the bootloader.
What bootloader is on your phone?
audit13 said:
You have the i747 or i747m?
Twrp cannot flash a stock ROM unless that ROM was compiled to be flashed in twrp.
If you have the 4.3 or 4.4.2 bootloader, do not attempt to downgrade the bootloader.
What bootloader is on your phone?
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Sorry, i747 AT&T version.
How do I tell which bootloader I have? When I try to boot it looks stock, just stays on the s3 logo. When I boot into download mode it's a Cyanogen guy.
Last working version of ROM I had was TouchWiz-based 4.1. I found on here but I did have CM11 and stock 4.4. before that.
Did you update your phone via OTA to get to 4.4.2? It's important to know so we can give guidance in terms of what can and cannot be flashed to your phone.
What cyanogen guy do you see in download? You mean the green Android dude?
Do this: copy CM10.2 to your external SD card, boot into TWRP and flash the ROM from the external SD card. If the flash is successful but the ROM gets stuck at the boot animation, boot into TWRP and wipe the cache, dalvik, and reboot.
Sorry for such a late reply! Been messing with other stuff lately, not enough time for my phone..
Anyhow,
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Did you update your phone via OTA to get to 4.4.2? It's important to know so we can give guidance in terms of what can and cannot be flashed to your phone.
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Yes, I did update to 4.4.2 OTA.
When I boot into download it says bootloader rp swrev 3. When I said earlier I thought I had the cyanogen guy when booting into download mode I had it wrong. Download mode is still just the Android guy. I was talking about recovery which I have TWRP, with the Cyanogen guy (?).
When I just try to reboot the phone regularly it gets stuck on the SIII logo.
I tried installing CM10 like you said from my SD card and the install fails.
Any other ideas of what I can try?
Thanks!!
OK I installed CM11 and that's working.
At least I have a working ROM.
Originally the only reason I tried going back to stock from CM11 was so that I could have access to Galaxy Apps for my Gear 2.
I will fool with going back to stock later possibly.
Thanks again for your help, audit13.
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OK I installed CM11 and that's working.
At least I have a working ROM.
Originally the only reason I tried going back to stock from CM11 was so that I could have access to Galaxy Apps for my Gear 2.
I will fool with going back to stock later possibly.
Thanks again for your help, audit13.
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Not related to your original post but if you dig enough you can probably find a form of Galaxy Apps that'll work on CM11! Or you could possibly rip the APK and get it to work.
This may work for you, but I don't own a Gear 2 so I'm not 100% sure.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593004
I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong thread or section, I'm new to this and am kind of stuck on what to do next. If it is in the wrong section can you let me know where to post?
I'm not sure what the previous version my phone was on but in the recovery menu I see KOT49H.I747UCUFNE4 so I assume it was 4.4.2
Over the weekend I tried to update my stock I747 (no root) through menus using check for update and when it completed my phone would no longer boot.
It gets stuck on the ATT logo and when I try to wipe it in recovery mode it still gets stuck on the same screen.
I have also tried to use Kies but the devise does not show up under the emergency recovery option even though my phone can connect to the computer.
However I have no problems connecting to Odin in download mode.
So what would be the best option for me if I dont want to root my device? Can I use Odin or should I be using a different program?
If I have to root should I follow enewman17 tutorial? If so what step should I start at?
Thanks!
Are you running a stock recovery? Did you wipe everything in recovery?
yep stock recovery, tried to wipe everything but i get the same problem.
If I were in your situation, I would install a custom recovery and custom rom such as cm10.2 to get the phone up and running to verify the bootloader and modem currently on the phone.
Should I be installing the recovery through odin or an sd card? Do you have a link for a tutorial, I've looked through t3chn0s1s's sticky but most instructions seem like they are for phones that can boot.
The method I see using an sd card needs a terminal but i don't think i can get one because I can't boot my phone, is that correct?
Download the latest tar.md5 file from here: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/
Copy the latest CM10.2 or CM11 to your SD card. Place the SD card in the phone.
Flash Philz in the PDA section of Odin 3.07 and don't check anything except F.Reset Time. When you see "Reset" in the status window, disconnet the USB cable, pull the battery, replace the battery, boot into recovery, wipe cache, data, Dalvik, system, flash CM from the SD card, and reboot.
Thanks got it working last night!
If you want to run the latest CM11 or AOSP ROMs, you may have to update to the latest bootoader and modem.
So I bricked my phone... yep
Basically, what I did was I flashed a stock rom for the international version of the GS3 instead of my AT&T version, which caused it to brick
But that's okay because I did the SD Card thing where you use the debrick.img on the card, which this is my second time doing this, so I'm used to it.
I got it to boot up.
But here's the problem:
I have no way of connecting the phone to a computer because the charging port in the phone is broken! So I'm stuck using the stock recovery, and every time I try to flash a stock rom, via SD card, it gives me the error:
E:Signature Verification Failed
I've tried a couple of different stock roms even from SamMobile.com but none of them seem to work.
So where can I find a signed, verified stock rom that will pass the test and allow me to flash the rom with the SD card?
Or is there some other workaround?
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So I bricked my phone... yep
Basically, what I did was I flashed a stock rom for the international version of the GS3 instead of my AT&T version, which caused it to brick
But that's okay because I did the SD Card thing where you use the debrick.img on the card, which this is my second time doing this, so I'm used to it.
I got it to boot up.
But here's the problem:
I have no way of connecting the phone to a computer because the charging port in the phone is broken! So I'm stuck using the stock recovery, and every time I try to flash a stock rom, via SD card, it gives me the error:
E:Signature Verification Failed
I've tried a couple of different stock roms even from SamMobile.com but none of them seem to work.
So where can I find a signed, verified stock rom that will pass the test and allow me to flash the rom with the SD card?
Or is there some other workaround?
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I've never used a debrick image, so I don't know if this would work. Just an idea to try and get around the broken USB port.
Could you root the debrick ROM with some app based method like Towelroot? It is probably vulnerable unless it is based on one of the newest stock ROMs. Once you have root, use an app like Flashify to flash a custom recovery, and then you should be able to flash back anything you need.
I'm not sure what you mean, I don't think the debrick img is a rom because my phone won't boot passed the GS3 screen. There's no way to get into the phone, all I have is download mode and stock recovery and that's it.
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I'm not sure what you mean, I don't think the debrick img is a rom because my phone won't boot passed the GS3 screen. There's no way to get into the phone, all I have is download mode and stock recovery and that's it.
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My mistake. I thought the debrick images got you into a working stock rom, just based off your external SD. Thankfully I've never had to use one.
Try this TWRP-2.7.1.0-d2att https://mega.co.nz/#!Qwgy3DzB!0geWEcBY14ftWVNzKfN3L-A757ntaMcHl9_Mv9vHmqs copy it to internal memory and rename it to update. zip
Go into stock recovery flash and after reboot back into recovery flash UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.51
https://mega.co.nz/#!doQhHCjK!E5BpKeSNKLzkFqZo8MpvGh6VYQPsjNKTSs0awR2d0m8
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