Hey guys I might have bricked my Galaxy Nexus after pulling the battery out while installing a rom. Now, my phone gets stuck on the Google logo and will only go into download mode. When putting it into fastboot mode it will go directly to recovery after several minutes. I already tried fixing the problem by installing the stock rom which didn't work because the recovery manager says it has problems and can't open parts of the memory. I also can't format the memory such as the sd card because the recovery manager says it can't open it. I also can't format it from the fast boot because I can't get to it. When I try to boot normally it gets stuck on the Google logo. I can get into Download Mode but Odin hasn't helped out. I also played around with an Omap tool which didn't help. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I am soft-bricked (I hope). A boot jig does nothing for me, but I am able to get into twrp recovery. It won't let me flash my current rom though (Mijjz). What should I do? (I am able to access odin through the twrp recovery right now though, and the computer does recognize it.) I am not able to boot directly into it. When attempting to flash in twrp it can't verify the partition size. I believe this is emmc?
Edit: This helped, but... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27852689&postcount=435
So this got my phone to boot again (yay) and now it can go into download mode and such, but my phone appears to be in a boot loop of the sprint logo, turning on and off. =( now what?
Edit #2: I am posting how I got this running for future visitors with my issue to see that there is hope of getting there device back online . So after I was able to get into download mode, I was able to go and flash the El26CWM and then do a Wipe on everything. I then was able to flash my favorite ICS rom, and get on my way. Unfortunately somewhere along the way my Modem got wiped out so I had to go back into download mode to flash it, and I found a new issue. For some reason, my phone still refuses to enter download mode without a jig. So I put my jig in, and downloaded the modem. All is working now (except I still can´t figure out why I need a jig to enter download mode, and the recovery wont boot for me either. It just goes and boots up normally. Its like until the Rom is loaded, it doesn´t take any imput from the buttons. I´m now running an FF18 kernel, so I find this to be odd, but at least I have a working device. Now I´m off to buy myself a nice memory card to compensate for the lost 8 gigs. The only thing that I can think of that may be causing the no download mode issue (although I can´t see why or how) is that I had a custom splash screen (not boot animation, splash screen) before I corrupted my emmc. Throughout the whole process of restoring, it displayed my custom one, except when I put on EL26, it went back to the Normal Boot screen. (the only time since the emmc screwed up that my buttons responded) But when I flashed back up, the custom one came back, and my controls to get into recovery and download mode stopped working again.
My brother has an S3 on AT&T running a nightly build of CyanogenMod 11.
It's been running this build for a while. However, he was on it today, and it crashed. Now it won't even try to boot unless you take out the battery and put it back in, in which it will show the samsung logo and shut off. It won't boot into recovery, it won't boot into download mode.
I'm thinking it's hard bricked, but why would it randomly hard brick itself like this? And is there any way to fix it?
Maybe it bricked because some files got corrupted? Not sure. If you can get into recovery, try wiping the cache, data, and Dalvik. If that doesn't work, you could try an updated CM11 ROM.
Did you try to get into download mode with a USB jig?
Its not hard bricked. Boot it into download mode and Odin back to stock
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
Don't use desktop Odin if the phone has been updated via an OTA update to stock AT&T 4.3 ROM.
I'm the brother with this problem, I just couldn't post at the time.
Anyway, I can't boot it into anything. not recovery, not download mode, nothing. The only way I can force it to even try to boot is to take the battery out, and back in.
After this, "Samsung" appears for all of about a second, and it shuts off again.
Edit: it seems I can boot into download mode, but like the samsung logo, it disappears. It's almost as if it's crashing after a second each time. Any ideas?
Hey guys,
So few days ago I decided to do a factory data reset on my tablet since it was moving very slow. I activated it through settings (not recovery mode) and my tablet had about 35-40% of battery. Long story short, my tablet now is in boot loop, not showing anything else except "Samsung galaxy tab 3". The thing is that this is not the first time for her getting stuck there, before I had the same problem when tried to root it, but then I simply flashed a new stock ROM and everything worked fine. This time flashing a new ROM didn't help me, I also cannot access recovery mode, only download. What do I do now?
I have the same problem on my Tab 3. Hope someone has a solution to this problem.
I've been doing a lot of flashing lately, including the stock ROM via odin, and have found that the first boot doesn't complete... I shut it down, go into recovery, do a factory reset, then boot, and it comes up fine. I'm not sure why you can't access recovery mode, but if you can, maybe try that?
Removing the external SD card solved my problem, so if you have a SD card plugged in, remove it. You can plug it back when the boot animation will start (not the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 3" splash screen).
My Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 LTE (SM-T525 aka picassolte) is a kind of bricked -
only download mode is still working.
In short, this is what happened:
First the device crashed and went into a boot loop.
I started in recovery mode and saw that the data partition could not be mounted.
At the next start even recovery mode did not work.
Only the TWRP logo appeared, then the device shutted down.
With Odin and download mode I re-flashed TWRP,
and as this didn't help, I flashed stock ROM.
Odin each time reported successful flash,
but problems on the device persist.
I could imagine that the partitions on the internal memory
need to be reformatted, but I don't know of any way
how to do that from download mode.
Any help for getting my device working again is appreciated.
Regards,
Gene
Update:
After doing even more research on the net, I found a stock ROM based four part recovery firmware. Flashing that I got the device at least working again in normal mode. ) Let's see if now TWRP and Custom ROM can be installed again.
So i tried to unroot my phone via magisk...and it just ****ed me it seems.
It bootloops with first the "this phones bootloader is unlocked..." and then samsung logo with the warning triangle about it not running official samsung software etc.
I cant boot into download mode by going into recovery (it gets stuck on starting fastboot ( the red text )). And i cant hold up and down volume + usb cable to go straight into download either.
after none of these things worked i tried clear cache and wipe data/factory reset with no luck.
i also tried reinstalling magisk from the zip on SD card but got some error and nothing changed.
Am i dooomed? Any tips will be sooo insanely appreciated!
//Jens
ok... i tried another usb cable and it worked getting into download mode. Now i just gotta find the easiest way to get the phone back to stock.
I have the same problem here with my Ultra S20. How did you fix it?? Mine's been stuck all day.. I can get to the recovery menu but not to the download mode.
This happened to me too. I just reflashed the stock firmware and rooted it again etc. It was the only way i could get it back working again.
Install TWRP........
Would have saved your ass.
Also, forndownload mode AND to enter TWRP, use a decent usb cable connected to a computer or laptop.