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Hi Guys -
First time android user and attempted rooting using the odin method. I followed the instruction listed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311194 to the "T" before starting. I was doing alright until after flashing the recovery-cwm-hercules.tar, then it gets weird. It didn't flash to recovery but just rebooted to the main screen (where I could see the background picture with the locker pattern), then it immediately shuts off and the cycle begins again.
The weird thing is that I can't even access recovery mode (hold vol. up+down+power), because I'll see the Clockworkmod logo then it flickers and reboot itself. This happens every time I attempted recovery mode.
My attempts to fix it:
1. I flashed the recovery, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315390, to see if it makes any difference. The same story happens with loading to main screen w/locker then it reboots itself again and again. Sometimes I'll be lucky to input the pattern but before soon it will reboot itself again. Same thing with recovery mode as described above.
2. Flashing the stock kernel provided by http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311229 to see if it does anything. Nope, same story for both recovery mode/home screen.
3. The insecure kernel, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320946. Same story. nope, nope.
4. Tried these in all order and permutation. Nada.
5. Tried it both ways using samsung driver/kies.
6. Tried it both ways with/without SIM card.
7. Battery is fully charged when attempting any flashing.
8. All the above in my second computer to no avail.
I'm sorry if this might come across as long winded but I just want you guys to get the full picture. I would really appreciate it if you guys could offer any solutions or advice on how to correct this problem. Please be gentle with this first time android user haha, thanks in advance man.
Manually boot into recovery (vol up/down keys) and make a backup (be sure to do this). Then try wipe data/factory reset through recovery. Sounds like a ROM issue not a hardware issue
First off, thanks roman for the quick reply. That's the thing I can't get to recovery manually with the button combinations. When I do that it gives me this message:
[Picture]White dropbox/mail box with a yellow arrow pointing to the Android
"Verifying internal mmc block
Checksum confirmation check (0)
No need checksum confirmation already exceuted
#manual mode#"
It would then reboot and goes to the screen with the locker then immediately repeats that cycle. It doesn't have any wipe options/restart now/etc.
No way to power it down except with battery removal. I've attempted what you suggested many times too to no avail.
redlaws said:
First off, thanks roman for the quick reply. That's the thing I can't get to recovery manually with the button combinations. When I do that it gives me this message:
[Picture]White dropbox/mail box with a yellow arrow pointing to the Android
"Verifying internal mmc block
Checksum confirmation check (0)
No need checksum confirmation already exceuted
#manual mode#"
It would then reboot and goes to the screen with the locker then immediately repeats that cycle. It doesn't have any wipe options/restart now/etc.
No way to power it down except with battery removal. I've attempted what you suggested many times too to no avail.
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Ok, so if it actually boots into the ROM but reboots, try rebooting to recovery from adb -- "adb reboot recovery"
think it's a no go . i tried using adb recovery method and the same thing would occur, it would restart and seems to load into recovery mode but then I would only see the logo, then it flickers and restart itself.
then the vicious cycle of loading up to the screen-locker and restarting itself begins. guess this is the smartphone version of being friend-zoned.
Have you tried taking battery out then back in and while holding volume up/down plug it back into computer? That has never failed to get me into d/l mode. Man I hope you get it working.
Yeah I tried that and getting to download mode is not the problem. just that recovery mode doesn't boot properly in that it would restarts itself. and when i boot normally to screen, i would see the locker and background picture then within 3 secs, it would restart itself.
Guess last resort is to go to t-mobile store, play dumb, and get samsung on it. only problem is that i worry about the flash rom counter # since mine is like 10 already (my attempts to address this problem). Let's hope those tmobile reps aren't that tech savvy.
Thanks for all the help fellas, great early posting experiences so far.
I'm sorry I've read your post..and i'm confuse, if you're able to go into download mode, then why could you just start Odin and flash the recovery again. If its unsuccessful then check the MD5 to see if you have a bad download. I think you should download the recoveries files again add give Odin another shot..Good luck..
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are you able to go into CW recovery ?
if so, you can mount the USB, download a stock ROM, and then flash it using CWR
kt0ce said:
I'm sorry I've read your post..and i'm confuse, if you're able to go into download mode, then why could you just start Odin and flash the recovery again. If its unsuccessful then check the MD5 to see if you have a bad download. I think you should download the recoveries files again add give Odin another shot..Good luck..
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I'm going to give it another try. I've been trying it with different files for a good 2 days now though.
AllGamer said:
are you able to go into CW recovery ?
if so, you can mount the USB, download a stock ROM, and then flash it using CWR
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I understand that but that's the a big problem. If I could go to CW it would be a different story but I can't go into CW recovery. I would be able to see the logo CWR and the version number then immediately it shuts off again and reboot. Happens every time without fail.
redlaws said:
I understand that but that's the a big problem. If I could go to CW it would be a different story but I can't go into CW recovery. I would be able to see the logo CWR and the version number then immediately it shuts off again and reboot. Happens every time without fail.
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did you let go of holding the vol+ & vol- buttons as soon as you see the blue text in CWR ?
it can easily reboot by accident when holding those buttons and hitting power, but the buttons are so responsive it selected the first option to reboot the phone by accident a couple of times on me
I'm positive that I held it properly and long enough. I never got to the blue text, just the CWR logo showing then turns off (like you shutting off a tv) and reboots itself. Trying to flash it again with Odin didn't work either and I tried the recoveries from different sources as well.
I went to the Tmobile store today and seems like they'll mail me a replacement then I'll return my current one to them. Only thing is stocking/processing fee but it's a small price to pay if it resolves everything.
glad they will give you another one..
Dude if you can get into download mode then it can most likely be fixed by flashing stock through odin. This would save you some $$. Just saying.
reocej said:
Dude if you can get into download mode then it can most likely be fixed by flashing stock through odin. This would save you some $$. Just saying.
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Dude, I understand that it should but it's not. I've flashed the stock recovery for more than 10 times and I still can't past the home screen. It would just reboot itself in less than 3 sec. And I'm positive I flashed it properly. Believe me I don't want to spend extra money if I don't have too.
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There's this Galaxy Note II (N7100) which the owner tried wrong patterns a lot and now the phone is locked and we can't use his Gmail account to unlock it. So I tried to get into Recovery Mode and do a hard reset. SO I turn off the phone hold 'Vol Down+Home+power' the phone turns on shows the samsung galaxy note 2 logo and after one or two seconds, instead of going into recovery mode that logo screen starts flickering (scrambling) and then nothing happens, the screen is black although I'm not sure if it's turned off. So now how can I hard reset? Thanks in advance
recovery mode buttons
mnvoh said:
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There's this Galaxy Note II (N7100) which the owner tried wrong patterns a lot and now the phone is locked and we can't use his Gmail account to unlock it. So I tried to get into Recovery Mode and do a hard reset. SO I turn off the phone hold 'Vol Down+Home+power' the phone turns on shows the samsung galaxy note 2 logo and after one or two seconds, instead of going into recovery mode that logo screen starts flickering (scrambling) and then nothing happens, the screen is black although I'm not sure if it's turned off. So now how can I hard reset? Thanks in advance
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hey,try this "you will first have to turn off your device. Once it’s turned off, press volume up + power button + home button simultaneously and keep them pressed until you see the recovery mode. Once you’re there, get your hands off the buttons"
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hey,try this "you will first have to turn off your device. Once it’s turned off, press volume up + power button + home button simultaneously and keep them pressed until you see the recovery mode. Once you’re there, get your hands off the buttons"
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Thanks for the reply man. Well, that's what I've been trying for a long time. I tried it on my Galaxy S III and it worked instantly. But on this one it doesn't work no matter how long I keep the buttons down(I held it for 20 secs or so).
mnvoh said:
Thanks for the reply man. Well, that's what I've been trying for a long time. I tried it on my Galaxy S III and it worked instantly. But on this one it doesn't work no matter how long I keep the buttons down(I held it for 20 secs or so).
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Go into download mode instead. Once there flash a custom kernel via ODIN and then reboot into recovery.
mnvoh said:
Thanks for the reply man. Well, that's what I've been trying for a long time. I tried it on my Galaxy S III and it worked instantly. But on this one it doesn't work no matter how long I keep the buttons down(I held it for 20 secs or so).
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boot into download mode and flash philz recovery via odin . uninstall orevious drivers and fresh install samsung drivers and make sure usb debugging is enabled.
a detailed guide can be found here this will solve your problem of recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801060&postcount=2
Note :
normally, phone should auto-reboot into recovery.
If it reboots into android and your recovery remains stock, repeat above steps and untick "autoreboot" in odin. Once flash is done, keep pressing power button until it reboots (normally will go to recovery)
when in recovery, if you choose option "reboot system now" and you get "yes - disable flash recovery", select that option to avoid stock recovery overwriting cwm
TheATHEiST said:
Go into download mode instead. Once there flash a custom kernel via ODIN and then reboot into recovery.
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shhbz said:
boot into download mode and flash philz recovery via odin . uninstall orevious drivers and fresh install samsung drivers and make sure usb debugging is enabled.
a detailed guide can be found here this will solve your problem of recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801060&postcount=2
Note :
normally, phone should auto-reboot into recovery.
If it reboots into android and your recovery remains stock, repeat above steps and untick "autoreboot" in odin. Once flash is done, keep pressing power button until it reboots (normally will go to recovery)
when in recovery, if you choose option "reboot system now" and you get "yes - disable flash recovery", select that option to avoid stock recovery overwriting cwm
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The first one didn't work but your solution (shhbz) worked, thanks a lot man
mnvoh said:
The first one didn't work but your solution (shhbz) worked, thanks a lot man
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just remember to efs backup and keep it safe the most imporatnt of all before any custom rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389426 here is the guide and enjoy flashing :good:
Help with Galaxy Note GT-N7000
shhbz said:
boot into download mode and flash philz recovery via odin . uninstall orevious drivers and fresh install samsung drivers and make sure usb debugging is enabled.
a detailed guide can be found here this will solve your problem of recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801060&postcount=2
Note :
normally, phone should auto-reboot into recovery.
If it reboots into android and your recovery remains stock, repeat above steps and untick "autoreboot" in odin. Once flash is done, keep pressing power button until it reboots (normally will go to recovery)
when in recovery, if you choose option "reboot system now" and you get "yes - disable flash recovery", select that option to avoid stock recovery overwriting cwm
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I understand this is a late post, but I hope you can help me out on this one. I have a different smartphone. I have successfully rooted my Galaxy Note GT-N7000, using Method 2 outlined in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2217840
After trying to uninstall a Live Wallpaper using Titanium, my phone is experiencing a similar case as OP. I'm stuck at Samsung Galaxy Note GT N7000 logo.
MY QUESTION IS: will your recommendation work for me also? I am able to boot into download mode. I am confused though where to find "Philz Recovery" ??? Will it be also found where I downloaded the kernel when I rooted my phone?
I downloaded this file for rooting:
PhilZ-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.11.2-signed.zip
over at:
http://d-h.st/users/philz_touch/?fld_id=23431#files
Is the Philz Recovery for use in Odin this one?
PhilZ-cwm6-XXLT9-ORA-5.11.2.tar.md5
I hope you can point me out to the right direction. I'm am quite new with rooting. And trying to save my once buttery smooth Galaxy Note I, GT-N7000 pre Jelly Bean.
Thanks,
Bryan
soft brick??? clueless
I think my lenovo a6000 plus has been softbricked as it doesn't get pass the logo screen. also recovery mode is not opening ( tried every combination). Help me with this. This phone has really checked up my nerves. the reason for flashing this phone as it had a problem of automatically downloading apps without consent, and video apps popping out in the middle of night(time service, monkey test apps), so the only best solution i found was to flash it( tried every other possibility- factory reset, password change...etc everything). Now it has died on me, can't get pass the logo screen. Also connecting the phone to pc gives me multiple drive partitions. Please help.
Cannot boot phone in Recovery Mode even with Philz Recovery
shhbz said:
boot into download mode and flash philz recovery via odin . uninstall orevious drivers and fresh install samsung drivers and make sure usb debugging is enabled.
a detailed guide can be found here this will solve your problem of recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801060&postcount=2
Note :
normally, phone should auto-reboot into recovery.
If it reboots into android and your recovery remains stock, repeat above steps and untick "autoreboot" in odin. Once flash is done, keep pressing power button until it reboots (normally will go to recovery)
when in recovery, if you choose option "reboot system now" and you get "yes - disable flash recovery", select that option to avoid stock recovery overwriting cwm
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I have a soft bricked (hopefully) Galaxy Note II that scrambles at the startup logo screen and goes blank. I can hear the startup sound and all on startup but nothing on the screen. I have been at it the whole night trying to get it into recovery mode so I could wipe it clean and reinstall the firmware. Tried CWM, TWRP, Philz Recovery (all using Odin) but nothing can get the phone to startup in recovery mode.
I have reinstalled the firmware as well after rooting it with CF Autoroot (again using Odin). I am sure that I am using the correct versions for this model but I have reached nowhere so far.
Now, I have two constraints:
1. The USB debugging mode is probably not enabled (the phone belongs to an uncle of mine).
2. I cannot do anything or change settings on the phone as the screen is black.
Can someone please help me out with this and let me know how to go about fixing it?
Try this: download the stock ROM from sammobile.com, open Odin, uncheck everything except f.reset time. Flash the ROM. When you see the word reset in the status window, remove the USB cable from the phone, remove the battery, replace the battery, boot into recovery, factory wipe, and reboot.
So I am running a very unstable version of CM12 and it has too many bugs. I would like to flash CloudyROM but my bootloader just seemed to disappear? I try to manually boot into bootloader with no luck. It pops up with a LG FIRMWARE UPDATE Screen and that doesn't really work out. I try to do "reboot bootloader" in the terminal emulator.
When I reboot bootloader, a screen that says the following pops up:
status bar saying 0% User b57
FIRMWARE UPDATE
DO NOT UNPLUG THE USB CONNECTION UNTIL THE PROCESS IS COMPLETE.
I can not press anything on the screen.
I don't really know what to do next. Could anyone shed some light?
The recovery doesn't just randomly disappear. You've gotta tell us either eactly what you did, but best is to just re-do the Bump process so you get your custom recovery back.
So you are stuck in Download mode?
Flash stock firmware, root it and then flash desired custom rom.
WxlfPack said:
So I am running a very unstable version of CM12 and it has too many bugs. I would like to flash CloudyROM but my bootloader just seemed to disappear? I try to manually boot into bootloader with no luck. It pops up with a LG FIRMWARE UPDATE Screen and that doesn't really work out. I try to do "reboot bootloader" in the terminal emulator.
When I reboot bootloader, a screen that says the following pops up:
status bar saying 0% User b57
FIRMWARE UPDATE
DO NOT UNPLUG THE USB CONNECTION UNTIL THE PROCESS IS COMPLETE.
I can not press anything on the screen.
I don't really know what to do next. Could anyone shed some light?
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Dude you don't use reboot bootloader to get to recovery, that automatically takes you to download mode as you have described. If you're using advanced reboot just click reboot then recovery. Otherwise, turn your phone off then turn it on by pressing both the power button and Vol Down button and holding them until you see a white screen with several options (this is the factory recovery). From here, choose Factory Data Reset and confirm it. It should take you to TWRP as I'm sure its not gone.
Decided I wanted adoptable storage so used odin to install TWRP process completes but on rebooting device TWRP not active only the old recovery. Went back one generation to twrp-3.0.2-0-chagallwifi.img.tar and tried that and still same problem. Any ideas would be great
enable usb debugging in developer option then flash again.
Oxoclear said:
Decided I wanted adoptable storage so used odin to install TWRP process completes but on rebooting device TWRP not active only the old recovery. Went back one generation to twrp-3.0.2-0-chagallwifi.img.tar and tried that and still same problem. Any ideas would be great
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You need to boot to recovery immediately after flashing.
Somebody posted this, I made a copy, It`s called the Button Ballet.
First off, uncheck autoreboot in odin. Second, you have to act fast. You have to reapply twrp and follow these steps because twrp was overwritten after the reboot. Go into download mode and flash twrp with odin (IMPORTANT: uncheck autoreboot). After odin confirms success flash, press button combo to get into download mode (power + vol. down + home button) but DO NOT LET IT GO INTO DOWNLOAD MODE. Act fast, as soon as you see a completely black screen ( i.e. no samsung or android logo), move your finger quickly from vol down to vol up while not letting go of the other two buttons. If you fail and the tablet goes into download mode you just have to try again to go into download mode but when the screen is black move finger from vol down to vol up while holding the other buttons. However if you fail and the phon reboots into android, you must go into download mode, reapply twrp and do the button ballet again.
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Once you get to twrp flash your favorite ROM (i.e. "official" CM for the SM-T800). As soon as you put a custom rom on it twrp will not be overwritten at (re)boot.
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John.
edan1979 said:
enable usb debugging in developer option then flash again.
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Hi usb debugging was already active
Oxoclear said:
Hi usb debugging was already active
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OK just completely ignore the solution John and I gave you. [emoji55]
Hello,
I wonder if anyone can assist?
I have an SM P607T.
Rooted using ODIN.
Then used the TWRP App to flash the recovery.
It wouldn't go into recovery mode, and now is giving me this: 'Recovery is not SEANDROID enforcing'
It says that for about 2 seconds and then reboots, again, and again...
I tried to go into recovery or download mode to no avail.
Taken the battery out, still does the same on reboot, just have no access to it at all...
Any ideas? Driving me and my poor little tablet nutty!!!
Thanks in advance...
Phil.
Anyone got a clue as to what might be going on?
philclaffey said:
Hello,
I wonder if anyone can assist?
I have an SM P607T.
Rooted using ODIN.
Then used the TWRP App to flash the recovery.
It wouldn't go into recovery mode, and now is giving me this: 'Recovery is not SEANDROID enforcing'
It says that for about 2 seconds and then reboots, again, and again...
I tried to go into recovery or download mode to no avail.
Taken the battery out, still does the same on reboot, just have no access to it at all...
Any ideas? Driving me and my poor little tablet nutty!!!
Thanks in advance...
Phil.
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Should I just give up on it, seems such a shame...
philclaffey said:
Should I just give up on it, seems such a shame...
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Keep the home+vol down+ power buttons pressed for longer time (like a minute or less) and you will get to the menu....
joselitoo said:
Keep the home+vol down+ power buttons pressed for longer time (like a minute or less) and you will get to the menu....
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Hey!
Thanks, that's enabled me to boot up normally, so it is back in use again, with the stock ROM.
Seems like, even though I flashed the latest TWRP with ODIN, that it won't go into recovery mode, just the same error as before.
Was advised to flash to orignal ROM, which I have as a zip file, not one I can use with ODIN.
As I can get into ODIN, is there any way to flash this a ROM with that?
Searched for a zip to an md5 converter, but seems like that is not a route I can go down.
Cheers! Phil.
I have exactly the same problem. It is impossible to get twrp running even if Odin says it flashed everthing and it´s OK.
Running out of ideas on how to get twrp up and running
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Keep the home+vol down+ power buttons pressed for longer time (like a minute or less) and you will get to the menu....
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joselitoo said:
I have exactly the same problem. It is impossible to get twrp running even if Odin says it flashed everthing and it´s OK.
Running out of ideas on how to get twrp up and running
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Ahh, OK, we're in the same boat...
If we could get a stock recovery that might help? No idea as where to get one from though.
Finally after long days it works for me:
1)Use Odin v3.13 with unchecked "Auto Reboot"
2) Use twrp 3.0.2-0 as in this page https://eu.dl.twrp.me/lt03ltexx/twrp-3.0.2-0-lt03ltexx.img.tar.html
3) Disconnect USB
4) Long press "Power Button" to shut down the tablet
5) Press Power + Vol Up + Home until recovery
6) Wait for "Recovery mode"
7) At the message "Recovery is not SEANDROID enforcing" wait a bit to see the twrp
Thanks folks