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Tried to install CWM via app, now no ODIN

Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.

piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...

piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.

BluesRulez said:
If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.
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OP, can you post more details as to how you got that recovery?
This is good information for others to avoid having problems, honestly.
(And if CWM site is saying that it works someone should kindly inform them that it does not.)

Mac of York said:
Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...
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The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.

piedra92 said:
The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.
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Only 2 ways to flash a modem are CWM and PC Odin.
If you're already on FK09 try flashing the Rooted nodata version and see if that gets you back where you need to be.
You'll lose CWM but that may not be for too long.
You can always flash one of Agat's CWM repacks for ICS, backup/restore and then flash back the stock FK09 kernel via Odin for now.

picture of recovery screen
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.

piedra92 said:
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.
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That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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BluesRulez said:
That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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ICS 4.0.4 (FI27?) the stock rooted OTA. I had root so I ended up using Mobile ODIN to flash the KJ09 tar file but it didn't bring the modem so I have no 3g.
I saw something about version 2e not having the signature check. I need to find a properly signed modem.bin or how to downgrade my phone to 2e.

Sorry this seems to be really obvious question, but Did you try flashing a kernel/recovery through mobile Odin?
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Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
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piedra92 said:
Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
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Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

garwynn said:
Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
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ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.

piedra92 said:
ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.
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You have to be in Odin mode not recovery

bigdaddy619 said:
You have to be in Odin mode not recovery
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I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.

piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.

piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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I think qbking77 has a video on how to update with a link that only work with stock recovery
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garwynn said:
Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.
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1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.

piedra92 said:
1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.
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Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!

garwynn said:
Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!
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Tried that, Mobile Odin won't work because I don't have root.

Clock work mod problem, please help

Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.

Have you tried twrp?

athens71 said:
Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.
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This will happen until you load a custom rom I believe. Same thing happened to me then when I installed a rom it started being able to boot into cwm
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athens71 said:
Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.
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flash recovery again in odin but make sure the "auto reboot" box is NOT checked. once its done flashing, unplug it and remove the battery for a second. replace the battery and immediately hold down vol up+home+power. this should take you into cwm if it flashed correctly

this could happen when you didn't root it properly
anyways, if you are rooted(as you said), get twrp and see

+1 for twrp

athens71 said:
I still have root.
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If you still have root, you might want to try installing CWM directly from your phone, using the dd terminal command to copy CWM into the right partition:
Download the latest CWM .img file from CWM's site: http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Put the file in your phone. For simplicity reason, I would suggest you put it in the root of your internal SD card. And because you will need to type the whole path+filename in the terminal in your phone, I would also suggest you rename the file to something simple, like cwm.img;
If you don't already have it, install Android Terminal Emulator;
Now, open the terminal emulator, and type the following commands:
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/cwm.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
(That is, if you rename the CWM file to "cwm.img" and you actually put it in the root of your internal SD card. If you put it somewhere else or did not rename your file, you will need to adapt the "if=" part of the command.)
Profit.

athens71 said:
Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.
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Just curious: are you trying to flash CWM via Odin? If so where did you get it from? Did you install a botched version of stock recovery maybe (or one that is from another model of S3)? Try TWRP from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28019751&postcount=1. It is at the bottom of the post and it is labeled "Odin Flashable TWRP Recovery" under Miscellaneous files. Download and install via Odin.
And if you are on Jelly Bean, your flash counter will increment in your dealings with custom recoveries and roms. You only option at this point (if you have root still) is to get Triangle Away and run it in order to reset the counter. However, even if you clear your flash counter, if you go back into recovery it will trip again.

drock212 said:
This will happen until you load a custom rom I believe. Same thing happened to me then when I installed a rom it started being able to boot into cwm
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I'm still using stock ROM, i'd like to install a custom ROM but i'm reading that you have to have Clockworkmod to do a successful install.
When i check in the files of the phone (sd card) i can see the clockwordmod folder in there there but still can't get it to boot into cwm recovery, only the Samsung recovery and I've tried the volume up home and power button so many times but no success.
Why do you think it worked when i first rooted the phone and not now?
this is frustrating, thanks for the help.

aybarrap1 said:
Just curious: are you trying to flash CWM via Odin? If so where did you get it from? Did you install a botched version of stock recovery maybe (or one that is from another model of S3)? Try TWRP from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28019751&postcount=1. It is at the bottom of the post and it is labeled "Odin Flashable TWRP Recovery" under Miscellaneous files. Download and install via Odin.
And if you are on Jelly Bean, your flash counter will increment in your dealings with custom recoveries and roms. You only option at this point (if you have root still) is to get Triangle Away and run it in order to reset the counter. However, even if you clear your flash counter, if you go back into recovery it will trip again.
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Yes I've tried 3 times via Odin, i can't remember where i got the cmw file from, it's a tar file (clockworkmod.TAR), the part i don't understand is why when i first rooted the phone in August cwm worked, i used it to install the root and now after trying to install it again 3 times i can't get it to work.
I'm using the stock ROM, not jelly bean.
thanks for any help

xBeerdroiDx said:
flash recovery again in odin but make sure the "auto reboot" box is NOT checked. once its done flashing, unplug it and remove the battery for a second. replace the battery and immediately hold down vol up+home+power. this should take you into cwm if it flashed correctly
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I've tried it with "auto reboot" check and without but still no luck. Like i said it reboots in the Samsung rm.

androidsavage23 said:
Have you tried twrp?
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No i have not, i can't find where to get it for galaxy S3 at&t! would you know where i could find it?
Thank you

athens71 said:
No i have not, i can't find where to get it for galaxy S3 at&t! would you know where i could find it?
Thank you
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Download goo manager app and open that. There will be an option to "install open recovery" in the menu. Voilà a superior recovery that's easier to use
You can even use it to boot into recovery or install the new update for it.
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athens71 said:
No i have not, i can't find where to get it for galaxy S3 at&t! would you know where i could find it?
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Easiest way to install TWRP is using GooManager from the Play Store.
1. Open GooManager.
2. Press the menu key to open the contextual menu, and select Install OpenRecoveryScript.
3. The app will ask you to confirm you really want to install a new recovery image.
4. GooManager searches for the correct TWRP build for your device. Look at the Filename line, it should display openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-d2att.img for AT&T or openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-d2can.img for Rogers/Bell/Telus. Again, confirm the installation.
5. Wait for the download to begin. TWRP will install. Done.
If it does not work or if GooManager does not find the correct build for your device -- in this latter case, this should raise a flag for you, as you may not have a SGH-i747/SGH-i747M; double check your phone model --, you can always install TWRP manually. From TWRP website (http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2), you can grab the IMG file to manually install from the terminal emulator, and a TAR file to install using ODIN.

athens71 said:
I've tried it with "auto reboot" check and without but still no luck. Like i said it reboots in the Samsung rm.
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Did you try it exactly as i said to?

drock212 said:
This will happen until you load a custom rom I believe. Same thing happened to me then when I installed a rom it started being able to boot into cwm
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So if that's the case (This will happen until you load a custom ROM) how can i back up my stuff before installing a new ROM? that's the reason i was trying to make cwm work so i could back my stuff.
Is there a different way to do a full back up?
thanks

xBeerdroiDx said:
Did you try it exactly as i said to?
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Yes i did, when i tried to flash cmw 3 times yesterday, the description was exactly like yours.
thanks you

athens71 said:
Yes i did, when i tried to flash cmw 3 times yesterday, the description was exactly like yours.
thanks you
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if you have root, download Rom Manager and install cwm from the menu.
i've also heard that, if rooted, you can erase /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh (using ES File Explorer or Root Explorer) an that will make cwmstick. this is due to newer software versions overwriting your stock recovery on reboot.

xBeerdroiDx said:
if you have root, download Rom Manager and install cwm from the menu.
i've also heard that, if rooted, you can erase /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh (using ES File Explorer or Root Explorer) an that will make cwmstick. this is due to newer software versions overwriting your stock recovery on reboot.
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By installing cwm from the app store (ROM manger) will i get the same back up as i would with Odin install of cwm, in other words do i risk loosing my back up ROM using "ROM manager?"
thanks

athens71 said:
By installing cwm from the app store (ROM manger) will i get the same back up as i would with Odin install of cwm, in other words do i risk loosing my back up ROM using "ROM manager?"
thanks
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you've created a backup already? if not, install cwm from ROM Manager, boot into cwm recovery and make your nandroid there. then you'll be all set to to try a new ROM

[Q] Installing custom recovery? New to Samsung phones...

Hi,
This may be a stupid question but I'm new to Samsung phones so I don't know all the details (I've only been using HTC so far).
So I've followed all the steps and got root fine. However, I tried to reboot into recovery afterwards and it's like Clockworkmod has vanished.... It just gets into what looks to me like the stock recovery. Am I doing something wrong or does the phone automatically restore its stock recovery???
Also, can someone explain to me if it is possible to manually flash a recovery from the img file using fastboot like you do on HTC phones?
Oh, and another thing. What's this Odin thing? I never used anything like that with HTC...
Thanks

ovimunt said:
Hi,
This may be a stupid question but I'm new to Samsung phones so I don't know all the details (I've only been using HTC so far).
So I've followed all the steps and got root fine. However, I tried to reboot into recovery afterwards and it's like Clockworkmod has vanished.... It just gets into what looks to me like the stock recovery. Am I doing something wrong or does the phone automatically restore its stock recovery???
Also, can someone explain to me if it is possible to manually flash a recovery from the img file using fastboot like you do on HTC phones?
Oh, and another thing. What's this Odin thing? I never used anything like that with HTC...
Thanks
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May I ask what variant you are using? GT-i9195?
Then please boot your phone into download mode, this can be done by first switching of your phone completely then holding the power button, home button and volume down button until the download screen appears where you press continue. Once you have done that connect your phone using the usb cable and make sure all drivers have been installed! Once the drivers are installed start up Odin uncheck the f.rest time box and click the AP section and then select the recovery file provided by Sir Arco in the root thread.
If you need more help please ask, If it worked then still reply

Odin is the software used to flash files to Samsung phones.
You will need to catch the first recovery boot after flashing the recovery image, or else the stock recovery will be reflashed once the phone boots up. Just reflash the recovery via Odin and make sure to boot into recovery right after the phone reboots after the flash.

Whosat said:
Odin is the software used to flash files to Samsung phones.
You will need to catch the first recovery boot after flashing the recovery image, or else the stock recovery will be reflashed once the phone boots up. Just reflash the recovery via Odin and make sure to boot into recovery right after the phone reboots after the flash.
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Thanks for the response. Yeah, I kind of realized that's what's happening. I've managed to boot into the custom recovery right after the flash and did what I had to do in there, but then after I reboot the phone again, the custom recovery is gone. Is there a way to stop stock recovery being reflashed automatically?
Also, if I want to install a custom kernel, how can I backup the current one so that I can restore it at a later date if I need to? I know how to do this on HTC phones but it all seems to be a bit different on Samsung and I don't want to mess up anything.

How did you reboot? If you select the reboot option in the CWM recovery,it should follow with a question on whether you want to continue rebooting with reverting to stock recovery or not.

Whosat said:
How did you reboot? If you select the reboot option in the CWM recovery,it should follow with a question on whether you want to continue rebooting with reverting to stock recovery or not.
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Umm... yeah, I think it did ask but I just accidentally pressed no before reading what it said... So I guess I'll just have to flash the recovery again and then answer yes to that question.
Thanks

Yes that would be the correct way to do it.
Hope all goes well!

stuck in recovery mode

I have a Samsung galaxy tab 3 light it also has TWRP recovery.
After installing this app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=phongit.quickreboot&hl=en
and using it to boot into recovery, I am now stuck recovery boot loop,I can however still get into download mode.
I also do not have a customer rom or custom kernel installed.
I tried using backups that I have, wiping cash,and even entering strings of code in terminal that I found on forums that said it would work, and none of it seems to work.
I do not care about keeping any data that's on there I just want to get out of the loop.
P.s please keep in mind that I am extremely new to android, as well as this form.

neo6060 said:
I have a Samsung galaxy tab 3 light it also has TWRP recovery.
After installing this app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=phongit.quickreboot&hl=en
and using it to boot into recovery, I am now stuck recovery boot loop,I can however still get into download mode.
I also do not have a customer rom or custom kernel installed.
I tried using backups that I have, wiping cash,and even entering strings of code in terminal that I found on forums that said it would work, and none of it seems to work.
I do not care about keeping any data that's on there I just want to get out of the loop.
P.s please keep in mind that I am extremely new to android, as well as this form.
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The onlyest way is flash STOCK with Odin.
If you want root, flash PhilzTouch with Odin, after flash Boot directly with Power ,Volume+ and Home button into Recovery and flash The SuperSu.ZIP V1.94
After that install The supersu.APP from playstore and update The supersu.
This way was working by me.

bierma32 said:
The onlyest way is flash STOCK with Odin.
If you want root, flash PhilzTouch with Odin, after flash Boot directly with Power ,Volume+ and Home button into Recovery and flash The SuperSu.ZIP V1.94
After that install The supersu.APP from playstore and update The supersu.
This way was working by me.
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I've tried several ROMs and still no dice.
Any other ideas.

Ive experienced this before and flashing stock thru odin is the only way out, and dont use quickreboot again heard theres a bug with the kernel

LoVeRice said:
Ive experienced this before and flashing stock thru odin is the only way out, and dont use quickreboot again heard theres a bug with the kernel
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any ideas where I can find the stock rom.

neo6060 said:
any ideas where I can find the stock rom.
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You could go to sammobile
h__p://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
and search by your device type

neo6060 said:
any ideas where I can find the stock rom.
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That is what i have writen, flash Stock with Odin.

[Solved] Samsung logo keeps looping. I screwed up. Pleaaase help!

Hi good people! thanks in advance, I had a problem for about a month now where my phone (Note2) used to take about 15 min to boot, after trying many solutions, I read somewhere to delete ODEX files and after trying that in many ways I went to system/apps and deleted ODEX files there with Root Explorer which turned out to be a biiig mistake, it just stucks at the Samsung Logo for a few seconds before it starts again (only the logo, the phone doesn't reboot) and it stays like that forever. I'm in hell right now, I have some files I don't want to lose so I was afraid of factory reseting but after I was told that it won't delete them, I did but that didn't solve anything, I can't access download mode, I can access recovery mode however (not custom) I tried flashing a custom ROM but I just get "E: failed to verify whole-file signature" please help ! I'll be really thankful ! thank you !
EDIT: I hope this helps someone else, after trying everything, what eventually worked for me was the USB Jig, I was able to enter download mode and install a new ROM from there. good luck!

Landross said:
Hi good people! thanks in advance, I had a problem for about a month now where my phone (Note2) used to take about 15 min to boot, after trying many solutions, I read somewhere to delete ODEX files and after trying that in many ways I went to system/apps and deleted ODEX files there with Root Explorer which turned out to be a biiig mistake, it just stucks at the Samsung Logo for a few seconds before it starts again (only the logo, the phone doesn't reboot) and it stays like that forever. I'm in hell right now, I have some files I don't want to lose so I was afraid of factory reseting but after I was told that it won't delete them, I did but that didn't solve anything, I can't access download mode, I can access recovery mode however (not custom) I tried flashing a custom ROM but I just get "E: failed to verify whole-file signature" please help ! I'll be really thankful ! thank you !
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If you know your rom load, flash it back on to your device without any wiping. It should load the needed files back on your system. Though any system mods will be lost.
The other option is to go into aroma from your custom recovery and grab your needed files over to your extsd card

gooberdude said:
If you know your rom load, flash it back on to your device without any wiping. It should load the needed files back on your system. Though any system mods will be lost.
The other option is to go into aroma from your custom recovery and grab your needed files over to your extsd card
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Thanks for the reply, the problem is that I don't have a custom recovery and when I try to flash a new ROM it tells me "E: failed to verify whole-file signature" ...

Well the only option is download mode and try loading the same factory rom you have on your device. Or a newer version, if available. Some different regions have updates.

Can't use stock recovery to flash a custom rom.
You have access to a USB jig? What happens when you try to enter download mode?

gooberdude said:
Well the only option is download mode and try loading the same factory rom you have on your device. Or a newer version, if available. Some different regions have updates.
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so sorry replying late I just saw your reply the probem is I can't access download mode I tried so many times but couldn't, I can access recovery mode however

audit13 said:
Can't use stock recovery to flash a custom rom.
You have access to a USB jig? What happens when you try to enter download mode?
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thank you, sorry I'm replying late I just saw your reply. no I don't have access to it unfortunately, and when I try to enter download mode the phone just boots normally to the Samsung logo (where I get the usual problem)
thank you !

Remove the battery for a few seconds, replace the battery and quickly hold down the home and volume down button.

audit13 said:
Remove the battery for a few seconds, replace the battery and quickly hold down the home and volume down button.
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Thanks ! already tried that aswell and it didn't work. tried a new battery and nothing

A USB jig may work.

audit13 said:
A USB jig may work.
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I don't think I can get one atm I'm far away.

any help guys ?? please! I've looked everywhere still can't find a solution

Without being able to enter download mode means you can't flash a stock rom via Odin. Maybe order a jig from eBay or try yo make your own. Either way, a jig us a good tool to have when flashing Samsung phones.

audit13 said:
Without being able to enter download mode means you can't flash a stock rom via Odin. Maybe order a jig from eBay or try yo make your own. Either way, a jig us a good tool to have when flashing Samsung phones.
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Is there any other way to fix this problem without a USB jig. ADB or something

Not sure that adb will allow you to side load a rom.

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Not sure that adb will allow you to side load a rom.
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oh okay, Is installing a new ROM the only solution there is ? if it is, is the USB jig the only way to flash it? thank you !

Installation of a custom ROM but that requires a custom recovery. The easiest method would be to flash TWRP with Odin or possibly TWRP via flashify. Problem is that the phone can't enter download mode or boot the ROM.
I recommend buying or making a USB jig. If you don't want to wait, you could take the phone to a repair shop and have it flashed via jtag.

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Installation of a custom ROM but that requires a custom recovery. The easiest method would be to flash TWRP with Odin or possibly TWRP via flashify. Problem is that the phone can't enter download mode or boot the ROM.
I recommend buying or making a USB jig. If you don't want to wait, you could take the phone to a repair shop and have it flashed via jtag.
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I'm gonna try to make a USB jig if that doesn't work I'll take it to a repair shop even. Can I flash a stock ROM from TWRP ? or only cutom ones ?
Thank you so much

Only custom can be installed via twrp.

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Only custom can be installed via twrp.
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thank you for the help. I'll get back to you on whatever happens