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S3 won't boot, load CWM, go into download mode...

Alright, so I have an i-747 (AT&T GS3) running AOKP Jellybean (8.28 build) with the KT747 kernel. I just tried to install Chainfire 3D using the automated installer, and when the phone rebooted, it stuck at the Samsung Galaxy S3 logo until I pulled battery. So I tried rebooting into CWM - same problem. And again with download mode. Even after pulling the battery for a good 5 minutes, nothing works. Am I bricked, or is there some fix for this?

If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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g2tegg said:
If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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Yeah, I made a nandroid just this afternoon, but I can't actually boot into CWM at all. As in, I turn on the phone (power+home+volume up), it gets to the Galaxy S3 logo and just hangs there. If I could get into CWM (or download mode) this would be about a 10 minute fix, but I'm kind of out of luck here.

Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.

HELP I have the same issue
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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Hi, sorry to say but sounds like its bricked
Thanks

MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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I doubt it's bricked if he got it into download mode. I'm sure he's flashed it and even got his wallpaper back up by now. Please let us know of you've managed to solve this or not MrPhantom.
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Curious?
I know its technically "Solved" but does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I have a Verizon GS3 and it's happening to me. I try to boot and it vibrates once and doesn't turn on. Recovery does the same thing. But going into Download mode works. Odin back to stock as we speak but I'm just curious what went wrong. I just did a clean install of a rom, set it all up (working at the time), set it down for the night and woke up to it like this.

rrrs444230 said:
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
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Same thing happned to me but your not bricked. You can get into bolth download and boot mode easy
Here is how you do it.
RECOVERY MODE
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME UP' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 5 seconds to enter Recovery Mode.
[edit]Download Mode
Save that somewhere. Make sure do it right. I got stuck also and thought I couldn't get into recovery but I had to do it right (it hit recovery mode first try) I have learned that most people do it slightly wrong. Make sure follow directions
Download mode
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME DOWN' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 2 seconds until a WARNING! Screen appears. Press the 'VOLUME UP' button to enter Download Mode.
To get out of Download Mode, simply press and hold the power button until the phone restarts
if helps hit thanks.
Just save that to a text file somewhere
I have also soft bricked when I deleted my rom once on accident. I dunno how I did it but I would get stuck at the TWRP screen. It wouldn't go to download or anything however when I plugged it into odin it saw it .... I even had a soft brick when screen went black from a bad boot animation and same thing.. and I had one bad soft brick where it took about 100 trys to get it into download mode (black screen) but odin detected it. I spent like 4 hours working on it.
I think
1. People don't follow directions correct (they do it a little wrong) which is enough if your phones messed up for it not to work.
when your phones normal it can get into recovery or download easy but when its sick you got to do it perfect.
2. I think something wrong with the phones (my s2 never had any issues in 2 years of owning it) S3 has tons of issues from usb, to bluetooth, to these soft bricks I have had)
3. Roms play a big part
4. I also think the way storage works in this new phone causes lots issues I dunno why just what I think
anyway Like I said now when I have a isssue I open text and read it and make sure I do it right and 95 percent of the time it was my fault I wasn't doing it right. K just my thoughts

when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different

phatchef1 said:
when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different
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That's most likely cause you're not in the right section..: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1708

CM10 Boot Loop? Help!

I rooted my phone to a stock root on my Jelly Bean Galaxy S3. I then installed ClockworkMod through ROM Manager, then CM10. It installed OK, now stuck in a boot loop. No big deal, I'll reinstall to my Kies backup. Doesn't work, I can't seem to get into recovery mode. I hold the buttons, it vibrates, and the screen stays black until I let go at which point it boots to that horrendous boot loop. I really need my phone back!
P.S. Please explain as if I am five years old.

Flightfreak said:
I rooted my phone to a stock root on my Jelly Bean Galaxy S3. I then installed ClockworkMod through ROM Manager, then CM10. It installed OK, now stuck in a boot loop. No big deal, I'll reinstall to my Kies backup. Doesn't work, I can't seem to get into recovery mode. I hold the buttons, it vibrates, and the screen stays black until I let go at which point it boots to that horrendous boot loop. I really need my phone back!
P.S. Please explain as if I am five years old.
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Download mode couldnt get any simpler bud
Edit: just incase if you dont know its down home power button to get to it, find your galaxy s3 firnware (ATT/Bell etc...) and your back stock nonrooted. And then you can root againif you wanna

While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.

mrhaley30705 said:
While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.
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Did you read the question bro.. he said he CAN'T go to recovery mode only other option is download mode

No, the option is to boot into recovery and perform a factory reset (which may fix his problem). IF that doesn't fix his problem, he can flash a different ROM from recovery, provided he had custom recovery.
The only difference in getting to download as opposed to recovery is which volume button you use. Chances are if he can't 3 button into recovery, download will be the same result.

Thanks
Got it fixed guys, thanks for the help, now I'm back at Stock Rooted 4.1.1, but am still on the quest for a deodexed rom!

Excellent suggestion - it worked for me
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While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.
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I got a Galaxy S III on 23rd Dec 2012 with Ice Cream Sandwich installed. A couple of weeks later it updated itself with a little help from me to the latest Jelly Bean. Since then it's gone into the reboot loop 3 times without any provocation; i.e. I get it out of my pocket and it's in a reboot loop but it had been fine the last time I used it. I tried pressing various buttons alone and in combination and eventually it came out of the loop. At no time did I have to remove the battery. The only mod I've made to it is the addition of a 64GByte SD card, apart from the upgrade to Jelly Bean. I've seen many posts on this problem but yours is the first that confirms my solution for getting out of it. It's obviously a common problem so somewhere there must be a description of what causes it and, hopefully, how to prevent it as it's a real nuisance when you want to use your phone and it's in a reboot loop. If and when I find a definitive article I'll post here again.
Thanks MrHaley.

Asking for help after being stuck for 1 hr

Long story short
Rogers Note 2
Got AllShare Cast dongle today and got it working with Stock rom, as I understood that it doesnt work with custom rom - I went ahead and tried with - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575 and expected, it didnt work so this involved triangle away etc
Phone had no issue, went to TWRP recovery
So now, I though I will try something else like - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984546&highlight=allshare
But I got stuck, it wouldn't go to recovery mode, it was stuck on SAMSUNG
So I ODIN'ed it and put stock back - I317MVLALJ2_I317MOYAALJ2_I317MVLALJ2_HOME.tar.md5
It went successfully, and then it rebooted but its stuck at SAMSUNG which is flashing with colorrs
I have seen this happen before with my Galaxy and S3 and the fix was to goto Recovery ( Stock ) and factory reset and it fixed it
BUT I just can't get into recovery mode
I then ODIN'ed TWRP but again, can't get into recovery mode
VOL UP + HOME + POWER
I am stuck big time, what else can I do?

inningsdefeat500 said:
Long story short
Rogers Note 2
Got AllShare Cast dongle today and got it working with Stock rom, as I understood that it doesnt work with custom rom - I went ahead and tried with - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575 and expected, it didnt work so this involved triangle away etc
Phone had no issue, went to TWRP recovery
So now, I though I will try something else like - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984546&highlight=allshare
But I got stuck, it wouldn't go to recovery mode, it was stuck on SAMSUNG
So I ODIN'ed it and put stock back - I317MVLALJ2_I317MOYAALJ2_I317MVLALJ2_HOME.tar.md5
It went successfully, and then it rebooted but its stuck at SAMSUNG which is flashing with colorrs
I have seen this happen before with my Galaxy and S3 and the fix was to goto Recovery ( Stock ) and factory reset and it fixed it
BUT I just can't get into recovery mode
I then ODIN'ed TWRP but again, can't get into recovery mode
VOL UP + HOME + POWER
I am stuck big time, what else can I do?
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When you Up/Home/Power do you get download mode? I had a similar issue and had to flash back to stock. If you can get download mode then not all is lost.
I will see if I can find the post I used.
EDIT: This was the post I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650 It will put you back to stock/rooted.

Krystm said:
When you Up/Home/Power do you get download mode? I had a similar issue and had to flash back to stock. If you can get download mode then not all is lost.
I will see if I can find the post I used.
EDIT: This was the post I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650 It will put you back to stock/rooted.
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I did flash to stock and then get back to Recovery but all is fixed and here's the explanation
When I had TWRP - I press VOL UP + HOME + POWER in any order, and it went to recovery, my last try was CWM which ironically never installed the 1st time I installed recovery and read this post in some website that WAIT for Samsung and then release power, i was like - lets try
So VOL UP + HOME + POWER all the same time, only release power when Samsung logo came and voila, I was in CWM
Pheww.I was like, I am dead
Also found, the hard way that ROGERS STOCK ROM Posted here - http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8176 is actually BELL
tx for ur reply and link mate

inningsdefeat500 said:
I did flash to stock and then get back to Recovery but all is fixed and here's the explanation
When I had TWRP - I press VOL UP + HOME + POWER in any order, and it went to recovery, my last try was CWM which ironically never installed the 1st time I installed recovery and read this post in some website that WAIT for Samsung and then release power, i was like - lets try
So VOL UP + HOME + POWER all the same time, only release power when Samsung logo came and voila, I was in CWM
Pheww.I was like, I am dead
Also found, the hard way that ROGERS STOCK ROM Posted here - http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8176 is actually BELL
tx for ur reply and link mate
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I am currently on JEDI 6.1 on my Note2 I was looking for something more flashy so I tried CM10. I guess I got something wrong cause I got constant boot loop. I thought all was lost since this is my first droid. But, went to stock, then back to Jedi. Glad this forum is here to help. This is what ultimately saved my @$$ so I am glad I didn't brick my phone and I am awaiting the Paranoid Andorid port to get done. I did install the 7100 version. nothing worked but man it sure was pretty.

Krystm said:
I am currently on JEDI 6.1 on my Note2 I was looking for something more flashy so I tried CM10. I guess I got something wrong cause I got constant boot loop. I thought all was lost since this is my first droid. But, went to stock, then back to Jedi. Glad this forum is here to help. This is what ultimately saved my @$$ so I am glad I didn't brick my phone and I am awaiting the Paranoid Andorid port to get done. I did install the 7100 version. nothing worked but man it sure was pretty.
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You wanna try the N7105 Rom, its superb but I can't use it as I just got the Allshare cast dongle and that only works with stock rom/rooted so waiting for fix, but if if u really want a good rom, I would use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575 type 3 - the blue theme is divine
I was on jedi b4

if you can get the phone to power up then you're not all lost.
I would do a md5 check of the .tar you flashed and see if it was a bad download...
even if you can't get to recovery via the button combo have you tried download mode? try to odin to something different - if you want stock rooted, try the "how to root without tripping the flash counter" thread and download that dude's root as it's an entire ROM essentially that is installed to your phone. The flash will take much longer than you are used to, so don't worry about it and resist the temptation to pull your phone or cancel the flash midway through.... it's almost 1 GB of info that is being rewritten so it'll take time.
if you can't get to DL mode you can use a jig to force the phone into it and odin from there.
hopefully that helps out.

Note 8.0 N5110... Bricked?

Hey guys
I've problem with my Note so... Hope you can help me :/
I recently installed last CM10.2 nightly from get.cm. So I restored all my apps and after that I applied the nav bar trough Pimp My ROM...
Everything was going good up to here. When I tried to boot into Recovery Mode to wipe cache (Because the tablet won't boot) a message popped up saying that I was in "SDCARD MODE" (The hell is that!) followed by something like coping to EMCC... Like if it was coping something from the SD to EMCC
After that the tablet got (Bricked?)... No vibration, no Samsung logo, no nothing
Any suggestions? Did I ****ed it up?
Any help would be appreciated guys
Cheers

rena14 said:
Hey guys
I've problem with my Note so... Hope you can help me :/
I recently installed last CM10.2 nightly from get.cm. So I restored all my apps and after that I applied the nav bar trough Pimp My ROM...
Everything was going good up to here. When I tried to boot into Recovery Mode to wipe cache (Because the tablet won't boot) a message popped up saying that I was in "SDCARD MODE" (The hell is that!) followed by something like coping to EMCC... Like if it was coping something from the SD to EMCC
After that the tablet got (Bricked?)... No vibration, no Samsung logo, no nothing
Any suggestions? Did I ****ed it up?
Any help would be appreciated guys
Cheers
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Can you enter download mode? If you can, flash a stock fw with odin. (Home + Volume Down + Power)
Go to sammobile.com for a stock FW.
Always better to start over from stock when things goes wrong like that IMO.

Bl00DGuY said:
Can you enter download mode? If you can, flash a stock fw with odin. (Home + Volume Down + Power)
Go to sammobile.com for a stock FW.
Always better to start over from stock when things goes wrong like that IMO.
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I can't do anything dawg.... The tablet is like dead
Wether I try to enter download mode or recovery mode, nothing happens
Btw, y' know what's EMCC?

So if you hold the power button and volume down at the same time for between 5 to 10 seconds, you get no Samsung logo at all?
If you get absolutely no logo (and the battery isn't dead) then it sounds like you totally bricked your bootloader somehow.
If that's the case, I'd send it in for service.

[Q] T989 stuck on samsung logo - no power button

hey guys,
I was on 4.1.2 I had a "NO SIM" issue so i decided to try to root and flash 4.4 rom (was using touch recovery 2.7.0.0 all the way)
then it got stuck on samsung logo, I need to know if it's possible to boot RECOVERY MODE either FROM DOWNLOAD MODE or some touch/vol buttons way to boot into recovery, I have tried everything within my knowledge, I start the phone by sliding the battery out and in while USB plugged. or into download mode by holding both VOL buttons. I need to get into recovery and do a full wipe so I can do a fresh jelly bean 4.1.2 again.
thanks!

troolplay said:
hey guys,
I was on 4.1.2 I had a "NO SIM" issue so i decided to try to root and flash 4.4 rom (was using touch recovery 2.7.0.0 all the way)
then it got stuck on samsung logo, I need to know if it's possible to boot RECOVERY MODE either FROM DOWNLOAD MODE or some touch/vol buttons way to boot into recovery, I have tried everything within my knowledge, I start the phone by sliding the battery out and in while USB plugged. or into download mode by holding both VOL buttons. I need to get into recovery and do a full wipe so I can do a fresh jelly bean 4.1.2 again.
thanks!
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Are you saying that your power button doesn't work or what? Also, this belongs in q&a. I'll ask a moderator to move it.
Sent from my SGH-T989
EDIT: thread moved.

I'd fix the power button first. Then the rest is easy. You're in for many headaches with a bad power button. Plus, if it acts up while flashing anything, you could be in real trouble.

it's a little urgent on needing the phone to use it, thats why am digging into this. the button wont be here until at least wednesday 13th.
but yeah i guess i'll wait
thanks for your responds guys!