Hello,
I've spent this weekend pouring over google, bing, and all sorts of different forums, and nothing I've tried has fixed the issue.
I've got a Note 2 on Sprint that I've managed to soft-brick. I can boot into download mode, but I can't boot into recovery. When I try to, it stays on the Note 2 splash screen.
I can get Odin to communicate with the phone, and it always fails at the same step: sboot.bin. I've tried several of the custom recoveries, as well as several of the different self-extracting one-click back to stock. Nothing I've tried has worked.
What is the next step that I can try? What other information do you need from me to help troubleshoot this thing?
Thanks!
Have you tried Kies?
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I've managed to soft-brick, firm-brick and semi-hard brick my phone and always managed to find a way to resolve it. If Kies can't communicate with the phone to do the firmware recovery then you might need to reinstall the samsung usb drivers. Also does the computer recognize that you connected the isb cable? If so you're still able to recover the phone!
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Also try using an older version of Odin to see if it helps along with an older cwm and check to see if it helps as well. If you still cant recover then you might have hard bricked the phone
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I had this same issue a few nights ago. I had to try multiple ROMs all downloaded from different places and flash then in Odin until one worked. If you'd like I can post the one that worked for me. The only problem with it is that it messes up your notification toggles, there is only airplane mode and blocking mode. Also every time you rotate the screen (ex. Watching a YouTube video) it force closes the system ui
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I had this same issue a few nights ago. I had to try multiple ROMs all downloaded from different places and flash then in Odin until one worked. If you'd like I can post the one that worked for me. The only problem with it is that it messes up your notification toggles, there is only airplane mode and blocking mode. Also every time you rotate the screen (ex. Watching a YouTube video) it force closes the system ui
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That would be great if you could. Once I get to a rom I can use, I should be able to get into recovery and flash back to stock.
You said you tried different roms, but have you tried to flash a different custom recovery first. You may want to try philz?
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You said you tried different roms, but have you tried to flash a different custom recovery first. You may want to try philz?
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I've tried multiple recoveries. I can flash them, and odin says success, but the phone never boots into recovery. Always the Note 2 splash screen.
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I've tried multiple recoveries. I can flash them, and odin says success, but the phone never boots into recovery. Always the Note 2 splash screen.
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Yeah this was my exact issue. The download that worked for me was the most recent one over at SamMobile. Since i am a new user XDA is not letting me post links yet so i am going to put it here in pieces and you can put them together in your address bar.
http: //ww w.samm obile.com /firmw ares/3 /?downloa d=22322
You may want to give this a try:
http://www.androidayos.com/2014/06/...e-4-4-2-kitkat-for-sprint-galaxy-note-2-l900/
Keep in mind i have not used the above link, so use at your own risk...
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I accidently wipe my phones internal storage including backups, Im running latest TWRP and it wont read my sd card. I have a custom rom on the sd card but i cant access via recovery. phone boots to recovery and even download mode but i dont think my usb debug is checked and i cant get thru with odin. Im crunched for time as my wife is coming home in an hour and she will be furious if i bricked my phone i need help restoring before she gets home. thanks.
Heres how I fixed the problem, it was easy after doing but confusing getting there. Since the phone would not boot past the galaxy s3 screen there was no way for me to select USB debugging. That option totally did not allow me to use the Galaxy S3 toolkit listed in android development nor could I select and run any of their lists of "Root" roms because something would happen where ODIN didnt boot it correctly. It ran it at first then "Boot" came on then "Reset" came on then "Pass" came on but nothing ever took. I went to samsung-updates.com selected the ICS factory rom and saved it to desktop. Then I unzipped that rom to unveil the TAR file and flash that via Odin and Bam it ran thru no problems. The problems I ran into earlier were links from other posts and it turned out they were either bad links or not for the phone. I actually tried one guys download link that claimed to be specifically for the T999 us version and it turned out to be for another phone all together Im just lucky that flash didnt brick my device even more. Anyways Odin was my friend it was just a matter of downloading the "Correct" rom. thanks to all that helped I appreciated you all taking the time to answer.
I would download this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682. You should be able to use your PC to flash your Nandroid, although i have never done that.
It doesn't matter if USB debugging is checked if the phone is off.
when i boot to recovery it boots to manual mode anyone know what to do next?
You can flash stuff from your computer in download mode through Odin. I hate doing it myself, but will try to look it up for you
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CANyNo5qNE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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looks like Odin in download mode is the way to go. Good luck bro
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Searching would have solved this problem just odin
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when i run in oDin it completes and gives me a pass at the end but the phone never auto reboots even though that option is checked. the phone stays on the galaxy s3 screen and never changes from there.
laraiza said:
when i run in oDin it completes and gives me a pass at the end but the phone never auto reboots even though that option is checked. the phone stays on the galaxy s3 screen and never changes from there.
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Boot to Recovery and reset factory defaults. That will fix it. It will still "stick" on that screen, but after a couple minutes, it will continue.
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Boot to Recovery and reset factory defaults. That will fix it. It will still "stick" on that screen, but after a couple minutes, it will continue.
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Yup boot into recovery and factory reset. You will be good to go.
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Searching would have solved this problem just odin
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chrisram88 said:
Yup boot into recovery and factory reset. You will be good to go.
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I booted to recovery did a factory reset but it still stayed on the samsung galaxy s3 screen for over fifteen minutes now. I even tried the rom toolbox someone suggested earlier but upon flashing a stock rom it prompts me to check usb debugging and I cant get past that screen.
Stock kernel! That should do the trick! Can't believe I forgot about that. Try that and it will boot up fine.
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chrisram88 said:
Stock kernel! That should do the trick! Can't believe I forgot about that. Try that and it will boot up fine.
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I was running paranoid android prior to this mess and yes your probably right about the kernel but I have downloaded from samsung-updates.com the ics kernel patch but its in a zip folder so i DL winzip to extract it but that doesnt seem to work either. IS there a stock rom download with a kernel i can download and use with odin?
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I was running paranoid android prior to this mess and yes your probably right about the kernel but I have downloaded from samsung-updates.com the ics kernel patch but its in a zip folder so i DL winzip to extract it but that doesnt seem to work either. IS there a stock rom download with a kernel i can download and use with odin?
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Check the dev section. There should be a thread there with stock rom and kernel flashable thru Odin
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Check the dev section. There should be a thread there with stock rom and kernel flashable thru Odin
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Found a rom and a kernel in the development section and ran it thru odin and it still didnt take. I noticed that the rom flash thru odin only took about two minutes and not once did i see where the modem cycle was being applied. Still no luck for me. Since my phone does not boot pass the galaxy s3 screen is it possible to get the phone to mount via usb cable and copy the roms to internal storage and install via recovery?
Finally got it working again. Thanks to all that helped.
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That's great man. You should edit the op with how you did it so in case others have same problem they can fix it.
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Sounds good I'll get it done in a few days I'm stuck at work again for now.
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Hello all. I had a rooted S3 which I recently decided to unroot. After unrooting, I noticed I couldn't receive system updates due to my phone being "Modified". I found some file on another forum that stated it would correct this to a "normal" status. I flashed it, and that's where my trouble began. When trying to access my system settings, I get the message "Unfortunately, TouchWiz home has stopped". I've done hours of research to try to resolve this on my own, but no luck. I haven't done a factory reset yet. I'm currently backing up over 1,000 files to Dropbox. Once that's done, I will try it, although I read somewhere that it doesn't work anyway. I can't access anything by connecting my phone to my computer. I've tried two laptops, nothing. I can't get into the settings to change any USB debugging options. If anyone could help, that would be fantastic!
Odin flash the stock firmware and ill bet it fixes the problem....depending on what you flashed. (It won't wipe your data) A link to whatever it was could go a long way in attempting to figure out any other way to fix it..
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DocHoliday77 said:
Odin flash the stock firmware and ill bet it fixes the problem....depending on what you flashed. (It won't wipe your data) A link to whatever it was could go a long way in attempting to figure out any other way to fix it..
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I wasn't sure if Odin would work if I couldn't get my computer to recognize my phone, but I'll give it a shot. Thanks for your reply.
If it doesn't see it in download mode, try uninstalling all related drivers and kies if you have it. Then reboot and try one if the drivers linked in my sig.
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If that all fails and factory resetting doesn't work. Try flashing a stock rom from recovery. This should at least get your on device problems sorted out.
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I tried everything. Reinstalled drivers, kies, etc. I can't get my computer to recognize my phone. I tried two different laptops. Not sure what other options I have at this point.
Hi people.
Well. The main problem here is that my dowbload mode appears to have changed of appearence and now only has the android logo and please do not turnf off.... sign. So what changed it was when i got odin mobile and flashed a bad recovery update and soemthing broke. My rom couldnt start but i could enter recovery and wiped everything and installed a new rom. But i am afraid because i can not use odin pc because it doesnt detect my phone at all... so everyone knows the reason?
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fenchai said:
Hi people.
Well. The main problem here is that my dowbload mode appears to have changed of appearence and now only has the android logo and please do not turnf off.... sign. So what changed it was when i got odin mobile and flashed a bad recovery update and soemthing broke. My rom couldnt start but i could enter recovery and wiped everything and installed a new rom. But i am afraid because i can not use odin pc because it doesnt detect my phone at all... so everyone knows the reason?
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Well I probably didn't read your phone cuz it was in a bootloop and it probably messed up the rom enough to get rid of the drivers that let's the phone connect to the pc I would just try dirty flashing the rom again to get everything back
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Or even try doing a full wipe and intalling a new rom or just reinstall the old rom
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terpin32 said:
Well I probably didn't read your phone cuz it was in a bootloop and it probably messed up the rom enough to get rid of the drivers that let's the phone connect to the pc I would just try dirty flashing the rom again to get everything back
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Or even try doing a full wipe and intalling a new rom or just reinstall the old rom
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Hi. I have reflashed a new room then did tons of reflashes after that and now im on 4.3 rom. Everything is working fine and it conects when my phone is on. But when it is in downlaod mode. It doesnt detect my phone. This is quite strange. Should i install kies or contact mobile odin people(not gonna answer me anyways xD)
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It sounds as if you have exactly the same result as I did when I reflashed my Samsung S3 I9300 and then updated it to 4.3 Jellybean.
Try removing the battery and leave it out while you go have lunch or something, i.e. for some extended time. Then try download mode again. That worked for me but only once. At this moment I'm waiting again, with the battery removed, before I can use download mode again.
Maybe there is something different with 4.3, only time will tell. Lots of people are running alternative ROMs so they may not come across this at all.
ok im going to cut this short i need help im stuck on this "samsung" logo lemme tell you the back story i root it put a rom on it (beanstalk btw) then i decided to go back to stock (dont ask me y i just want to) i used odin and the samsung website to find which version i want i then extract it and everything i used odin 3.07 to work its magic. now im in this samsung screen im waiting 20 minutes for it to pass the "samsung" boot logo yet it doesnt can anyone help me
Try downloading again or using Odin to push custom recovery and flashing a stock based ROM.
Make sure you didn't leave anything checked in Odin you weren't explicitly told to leave checked (I can't remember the exact box I'm thinking of but it has to do with partitions) I lost an admire to a hard brick like that once.
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tokenpoke said:
Try downloading again or using Odin to push custom recovery and flashing a stock based ROM.
Make sure you didn't leave anything checked in Odin you weren't explicitly told to leave checked (I can't remember the exact box I'm thinking of but it has to do with partitions) I lost an admire to a hard brick like that once.
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i did try downloading it again and used odin numerous times what do you mean by push custom recovery? but i did flash a stock rom also its the re-partition that you ment to say, i definently left that one closed i didnt leave it checked i cleared my cache and data thinking that the samsung boot wouldve worked but it still didnt
I mean use Odin to put a custom recovery like twrp or cwm on the phone and try flashing a ROM like you did with beanstalk.
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I mean use Odin to put a custom recovery like twrp or cwm on the phone and try flashing a ROM like you did with beanstalk.
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but i want to go back to stock idk how doing that will help but ok
It will confirm that the phone isn't hard bricked and allow you to use the phone at least.
From there you can try Mobil Odin on the off chance that its a PC issue.
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tokenpoke said:
It will confirm that the phone isn't hard bricked and allow you to use the phone at least.
From there you can try Mobil Odin on the off chance that its a PC issue.
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why is twrp asking me for a password when their is none and when i press cancel and view my file it say my sdcard and ext has 0bytes
Well, that's not good.
Um... I've never had that happen.
But SD and ext showing 0 tells me those partitions were wiped and possibly resized.
I don't know how to rebuild partitions though.
Maybe ask in the twrp thread about the password issue. I've never seen that in 5 years of modding my phones.
The fact that recovery boots at all is promising but I'm not sure if its gonna fix your problem to be honest.
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If you can get past the password and get ADB running you may be able to rebuild the partition tables using ADB commands.
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tokenpoke said:
Well, that's not good.
Um... I've never had that happen.
But SD and ext showing 0 tells me those partitions were wiped and possibly resized.
I don't know how to rebuild partitions though.
Maybe ask in the twrp thread about the password issue. I've never seen that in 5 years of modding my phones.
The fact that recovery boots at all is promising but I'm not sure if its gonna fix your problem to be honest.
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If you can get past the password and get ADB running you may be able to rebuild the partition tables using ADB commands.
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but when i go to backup it gives me the mb and everything it doesnt show 0mb
Wait... So you CAN get in to flash a ROM but the recovery isn't seeing the partitions unless you're tying to backup the current ROM?
Do you have a backup already made that you can try restoring?
Also, did you ask about the password issue in the twrp thread?
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tokenpoke said:
Wait... So you CAN get in to flash a ROM but the recovery isn't seeing the partitions unless you're tying to backup the current ROM?
Do you have a backup already made that you can try restoring?
Also, did you ask about the password issue in the twrp thread?
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Hmmm.. Im going to do that u mm where is the twrp thread located?
Um... I don't know for the non LTE s3. The forum has an awesome search function though that should find it for you quickly. I'm on mobile though so its a pain to find and link.
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Um... I don't know for the non LTE s3. The forum has an awesome search function though that should find it for you quickly. I'm on mobile though so its a pain to find and link.
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I got it working! ! It's weird I flashed the stock rom with Odin 4 times but when I re flashed it this time it worked. .. weird but it works thanks for your help tho
Sounds like a PC hiccup.
You may want to invest in a new USB cable just incase. I've had issues from my original USB cable where it wouldn't transfer files without corrupting. Drove me crazy until I used my girlfriends without issue.
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When ever gojng between tw and cm/aosp roms it will hang at boot unless you factory reset. Glad you got it working!
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Hello,
I have the screen of death "Firmware upgrade encountered and issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". I have tried all of the tricks that I have found on various forums, i.e. different USB cables, different USB ports, different versions of Odin (fails to write), recovery mode in Kies (either does not support firmware updgrade) or cannot updgrade this device. I have to admit that I did try to (succeeded, I think) Cyanogenmod installer, but was having issues so wanted to go back to stock. I got the stock firmware from SamMobile. Any ideas? Any help? I am 2.5 weeks away from my upgrade so if this fails will be without a phone.
Thank you for any help.
Keep in mind i don't know what your running (root? Custom recovery? Etc) and don't know what you're trying to flash. But, this may help:
http://androidcentral.us/2013/09/how-to-fix-firmware-upgrade-encountered-an-issue-on-kies/
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g_money said:
Keep in mind i don't know what your running (root? Custom recovery? Etc) and don't know what you're trying to flash. But, this may help:
http://androidcentral.us/2013/09/how-to-fix-firmware-upgrade-encountered-an-issue-on-kies/
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Ciao g_money, thank you for the link. I have tried that, but it keeps kicking it back saying that "this devices version cannot be upgraded". I am running the Cyanogenmod 11 ROM. I used the install link that was just released, downloading the .apk to my phone first and then finishing the install through my computer. I think I did something stupid when I was rebooting from the install, it asked something about preventing the system from flashing the rom (?) and I said yes because I didn't want to revert back to stock, at the time. I feel I may really have screwed the pooch on this one. But, if you have any other ideas, I would love to have my phone back, thanks again.
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I would try taking the phone back to stock, using this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2738533
*If* that's successful. You can then flash a custom recovery and root if you want.
I would also be prepared to lose anything o may have on my phone (that i didn't back up)
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*If* that's successful. You can then flash a custom recovery and root if you want.
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Exactly what I would suggest, too.
You might want to re-format your external SD card too after backing up everything on it. Sometimes that solves weird issues.
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