I'm having a new issue with recovery. So for some reason I decided it would be a good idea to try to flash twrp via the twrp app to see if it would fix the inconsistency of twrp loading/not loading. Stupid decision. Twrp stopped working completely. It would load to the menu but was unresponsive. It also kept the phone from booting past the galaxy screen. I tried odining twrp 2.8.7.1, 2.8.7.0, 2.8.6.0. No change. So I odined the of7 tar, updated to ofe, odined the ofe rooted kernel. Phone booted and worked fine. So far so good. Then I tried odining the 2.8.7.1 recovery. Same issue occurred again. I have no idea why... So I had no choice but to repeat the whole tar/update/root process to get the phone back up and running. Now I am just rooted on the stock ofe and can't figure out how to get the recovery to work so I can get back to twisted rom. I even have a backup, but I can't restore it without booting into a working recovery. Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
the recovery we need for 5.1.1 is twrp-2.8.7.1-zerofltespr.img.tar that spr is important and its around here somewhere. ill find a link when i get to work if someone else doesn't post
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So two days ago I thought about installing Vision X rom on my Note 3 (T Mobile).
I downloaded the ROM and then backed up my current ROM (nandroid). I had Phillz touch recovery then.
Then I thought about going to TWRP and thus I downloaded the latest zip for my phone and flashed it via Phillz upon trying to reboot into recovery it got stuck in the screen "Rebooting Recovery...".
When I restarted it would still try to reboot into recovery and get stuck. I got out of that by going into download mode and then selecting "Restart Phone".
After that I looked for solutions and upon failing to find any I thought about going back to stock and starting from ground zero. I managed to flash the latest stock using Odin however I forgot to do a factory reset before hand.
When I tried to do a factory reset in my, now stock, phone it failed and then got stuck trying to get into recovery. It would flash "Rebooting Recovery..." then restart and flash that in a loop.
I have lost my root as well in the process and trying to root using Odin and CF-Root just get's me back in the recovery boot loop. I can use the phone OK however this is not a stable situation.
I'm sure I've made some serious errors in the tinkering and would like to get my recovery back. I really love Custom Roms. Any kind and knowledgeable souls out there to help me in my cause?
kaif15 said:
So two days ago I thought about installing Vision X rom on my Note 3 (T Mobile).
I downloaded the ROM and then backed up my current ROM (nandroid). I had Phillz touch recovery then.
Then I thought about going to TWRP and thus I downloaded the latest zip for my phone and flashed it via Phillz upon trying to reboot into recovery it got stuck in the screen "Rebooting Recovery...".
When I restarted it would still try to reboot into recovery and get stuck. I got out of that by going into download mode and then selecting "Restart Phone".
After that I looked for solutions and upon failing to find any I thought about going back to stock and starting from ground zero. I managed to flash the latest stock using Odin however I forgot to do a factory reset before hand.
When I tried to do a factory reset in my, now stock, phone it failed and then got stuck trying to get into recovery. It would flash "Rebooting Recovery..." then restart and flash that in a loop.
I have lost my root as well in the process and trying to root using Odin and CF-Root just get's me back in the recovery boot loop. I can use the phone OK however this is not a stable situation.
I'm sure I've made some serious errors in the tinkering and would like to get my recovery back. I really love Custom Roms. Any kind and knowledgeable souls out there to help me in my cause?
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Go to the Playstore and download TWRP Coordinator and then
use it to install the latest TWRP recovery for your phone.
Once you can get back into TWRP recovery you need to flash
the cf-autoroot for your phone. Be sure you flash the CORRECT
version of cf-autoroot for your phone's model.
Good luck!
Misterjunky said:
Go to the Playstore and download TWRP Coordinator and then
use it to install the latest TWRP recovery for your phone.
Once you can get back into TWRP recovery you need to flash
the cf-autoroot for your phone. Be sure you flash the CORRECT
version of cf-autoroot for your phone's model.
Good luck!
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The app is constantly crashing!
It would start for a second then close. I tried the TWRP manager as well with the same result.
I've lost root access when I Odined back to stock, won't I need root access to install new recoveries?
Sounds like you flashed the stock 4.4 firmware and now need recovery to root. Flash this TWRP file using Odin http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/hltetmo/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-hltetmo-4.4.img.tar
Once you flash it, you need to boot into recovery to install supersu to root.
Switch off the Galaxy Note 3 (remove the battery and reinsert if needed)
Next, press and hold simultaneously Volume Up, Home and Power.Release the buttons when the screen flickers and wait for the TWRP menu.
Select Reboot, then System and install Supersu for root.
Once booted, open Supersu to update it and grant permission.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
I recently flashed CM12.1 on my S3. I was running rooted stockmod 4.3. Everthing went fine. I made a nandroid first. I was able to flash back to with my nandroid and then back to a nandroid of CM12. I tried to flash back again and booted into Touchwiz ROM with no Google services and most of many (too) many apps gone. I then tried to flash back to my CM12 Lollipop nandroid in recovery and got stuck in a bootloop. I could not get past the the Teamwin screen.
Even though my USB port is dicey I was able to use ODIN on my pc to flash back to stockmod_root 66. I then installed TWRP using TWRP manager on device. This went fine.
I then tried to flash back to CM12 in recovery using my nanback but the phone reboots after a few seconds with any task, even just wiping partitions. I am also now getting an error message after trying to load the same stockmod I used successfully earlier. The message is in Chinese so I have no idea what it says.
Any hope here?
Edit: I managed to load the stock image in ODIN and it is flashing now. Still do not understand what did wrong so as not to be able to restore my nan back of CM12. Was there a problem with my installation of TWRP with TWRP manager?
Thanks
I got an S5 and want to sell my S3 that I've been running CM12.1 nightlies on now for the past year.
I'm having issues though just getting it back to complete stock through various stock TARs I've downloaded. I've soft bricked it a few times but it has bounced back after installing a recovery again in Odin. They're all on the front page of the Sprint S3 Android XDA forum, so it's not like I'm flashing something non-Sprint.
Here's what I've been doing:
I wiped and factory reset within TWRP recovery.
Then I flashed the stock recovery in Odin. That worked just fine.
Go into download mode, tried to flash the Stock NJ2 tar and it fails at aboot. Phone then says: SW REV CHECK FAIL: Fused 2 > Binary 1
I get the 'connect to Kies' error both when powering up and in recovery. Throw it back into download mode, flash stock recovery again. Works fine -- boots in CM12.1 again with no data fresh.
I then tried to flash stock MK3 and it failed too.
I've tried the latest Odin and 3.07 but both give me the same results.
Re-flashing any recovery (I've used stock and TWRP) both get it back to where it boots into CM12.1.
Any guidance on how I can get this thing back to a stock Touchwiz ROM with OTA updates so I can sell it on Craigslist or Swappa or something? I'd appreciate anything, I'm a loss here!
Nevermind! Thank goodness I found an old nandroid backup on an HD and it worked.
numero9 said:
Nevermind! Thank goodness I found an old nandroid backup on an HD and it worked.
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Any chance you could share your nandroid backup with me? I'm having the same problem getting my S3 back to stock.
numero9 said:
I got an S5 and want to sell my S3 that I've been running CM12.1 nightlies on now for the past year.
I'm having issues though just getting it back to complete stock through various stock TARs I've downloaded. I've soft bricked it a few times but it has bounced back after installing a recovery again in Odin. They're all on the front page of the Sprint S3 Android XDA forum, so it's not like I'm flashing something non-Sprint.
Here's what I've been doing:
I wiped and factory reset within TWRP recovery.
Then I flashed the stock recovery in Odin. That worked just fine.
Go into download mode, tried to flash the Stock NJ2 tar and it fails at aboot. Phone then says: SW REV CHECK FAIL: Fused 2 > Binary 1
I get the 'connect to Kies' error both when powering up and in recovery. Throw it back into download mode, flash stock recovery again. Works fine -- boots in CM12.1 again with no data fresh.
I then tried to flash stock MK3 and it failed too.
I've tried the latest Odin and 3.07 but both give me the same results.
Re-flashing any recovery (I've used stock and TWRP) both get it back to where it boots into CM12.1.
Any guidance on how I can get this thing back to a stock Touchwiz ROM with OTA updates so I can sell it on Craigslist or Swappa or something? I'd appreciate anything, I'm a loss here!
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Don't try to flash mk3, you will hard brick if you've updated to nd8 or newer. You don't flash stock recovery at all. Just the stock tar in odin. Have you flashed the stock nd8 or nj2 .tar? Those are the ones you should be flashing. Just the stock .tar, nothing else. It has the right recovery in it. You may be messing up flashing stock recovery. Every build has a different version of recovery ,( like nd8 or nj2).
Yeah I flashed both and they didn't work from Odin. I was on NJ2. MK3 just soft bricked me only. Anyway it's a moot point now that I got it working.
All right i have been messing around with this all day now. I am not new to rooting, TWRP and android in general. I am very new to ODIN and samsung devices. I flashed chainfire's autoroot with ODIN. Then i booted back up. I then moved twrp.img over to my sdcard root and went through terminal and flashed TWRP. After i flashed it i made a backup. After the backup was complete TWRP said i was not rooted and asked if it could fix that. I said yes and now i am stuck in bootloop. I have tried wiping the data with no results. I tried flashing stockrecoverymj4.tar and still nothing. I am pulling my hair out that i have broke this tablet after less than a day. HELP HELP HELP i can boot into download mode and the stock recovery.
I owned this phone a while ago, gained root access on it, and after a year or so I gave it to a friend. My friend has given it back but before doing so she did a factory reset on it. Now it is stuck on a TWRP bootloop. To be clear, when I turn it on I get the TWRP boot screen, then it flicks off and back on again. Basically a loop. I cannot get INTO TWRP to do anything.
I cannot recall what version of TWRP it has, but I know 3.0.0.0 was troublesome for a lot of people (they reported this TWRP bootloop, or something similar).
There are a couple threads similar to this, but no solutions.
This post (http://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-fix-twrp-bootloop-easy-method.1026682/) seems like a good solution, but so far it is not working for me.
I know this device is old now, so hope is low for getting it working again... but if anyone knows what I need to do I would be really grateful if you could suggest something for me to try! I don't have much to loose, so happy to try nearly anything.
I would start over by flashing a stock rom from sammobile.com, then twrp, and a custom rom is required. Remember, flashing a stock rom will wipe all data.
If you need the data, try flashing twrp 2.87 or the latest twrp with Odin.
audit13 said:
I would start over by flashing a stock rom from sammobile.com, then twrp, and a custom rom is required. Remember, flashing a stock rom will wipe all data.
If you need the data, try flashing twrp 2.87 or the latest twrp with Odin.
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Thanks! Am I able to flash this when phone is in TWRP bootloop? The link I posted in my last message implies it ought to be fine to do so...
Yes, you can just flash a stock rom when you are in a twrp boot loop as long as the phone can enter download mode.
Ok cool, thanks! Will give it a shot ASAP.