Today I tried using the SkipSoft Toolkit to install a custom recovery and root my note 2. I followed the instructions (installed USB drivers) then i got to the part to install custom recovery with odin. At this point i noticed the program was failing to but my phone into download mode. Yet it was moving on and launching odin and pretending everything was ok. Even odin recognized the phone. I don't know what to do so i tried to flash twrp. It failed. I then manually went into download mode. Tried again and it failed. I closed everything. I manually launched odin and went into download mode and flashed twrp. This time it worked. After rebooting i went to recovery and i noticed it was stock recovery. SkipSoft warned me about some phones reflashing stock recovery and that i needed to flash a custom recovery and go into it before the phone boots then flash a permanentrecovery.zip file inside the custom recovery so it stayed that way.
I went into download mode again, i flashed twrp again, but i forgot to disable the auto-reboot setting. I quickly hold power+upvol+home to try to get into the recovery instead of booting normally. I don't know if that was the problem or something else, but my phone got stuck in a bootloop. I can't enter recovery and only download mode. I tried reflashing recovery with odin in download mode but i noticed it was getting stuck and the process didn't even start. I reinstalled the drivers and now my computer or odin are not even recognizing the phone anymore.
Any ideas on what the problem could be or how to fix this?
TL/DR: Phone stuck in bootloop, can't access recovery only download mode but computer doesn't recognize it even with the samsung drivers installed anymore.
It was the usb cable. Apparently usb cables that come with chargers are not good. Good to know.
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My I747M started acting strange and failing on installs from the play store. It had twrp 2.6.0.0 and cm10.2 on it.
I ran a nand restore and it didnt fix the issue, so I rebooted into twrp recovery mode and went to wipe everything except external sd since thats where my downloads are. It started then the phone rebooted instantly.
Now all i can get is it will boot to download mode, but oden never shows that its writing anything to the phone, the % stays at zero, if i unhook the usb cable it just says it couldn't detect the phone no matter how long I wait. kies does the exact same thing.
If I try to boot back into recovery mode in twrp it just shows the twrp screen then resets. If I try a normal boot it resets at the cm boot screen just before the animation screen.
is it bricked for good?
Update: I downloaded twrp and flashed using odin. thats the only thing that will flash in download mode, from twrp I can flash a rom and it boots up and the phone works.
In download mode kies see's but cant connect to my phone for a factory restore. odin see's and can flash but flashing anything other than the recovery just hangs.
In twrp when I try to restore a nandroid backup of rooted 4.1.2 touchwiz it just crashes and reboots the phone and I start with the original post issues.
What I was trying to do: I have a stock 4.4.2 AT&T GS3 that I wanted to root, and then install Cyanogen Mod.
What I did: I flashed Auto-Root with Odin 3.10, restarted and then flashed TWRP 2.8. I then booted to TWRP and attempted to wipe/format the phone but it showed some errors along the way, I think it was something having to do being unable to mount the SD card. I then rebooted into recovery and flashed CM12 and slim Google Apps zip. When it was flashing both I got a string of errors but it said it was successful.
Where I'm at now: When I try turning the phone on (without holding any buttons down) it attempts to boot straight to the TWRP but gets stuck at the blue TeamWin screen. I'm able to get to download mode by holding down the appropriate buttons. I'm wondering if there's anything I can flash from Odin to resolve this.
I also realized I have unbacked up photos on the device, I don't think the format was successful, is there any way to recover those?
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To recover the pictures, try re-installing TWRP, boot into TWRP, and mount the partitions. Connect the phone to your computer and copy your pictures.
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I have had this happen before. Try using Odin to flash an older version of TWRP, uncheck reboot after flash and then when it is done, do a battery pull. This has gotten me back into a working TWRP to restore my previous setup. Note: You made need to go back to 2.6. Once you have gotten back up and running flash to the current TWRP with the app.
I installed root from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2421594
i installed custom recovery twrp and i did something wrong with odin, now it's stuck on boot screen and i can't go in recovery mode anymore. I have the original firmware and odin ready but i can't get in recovery/install mode.
Another thing, i downloaded odin from odind*** the first odin download that shows up on google, but it doesn't look like it's he official page, is the files on there safe?
Bumping this thread for help.
Still need help.
update.
I managed to get into recovery mode and did a factory reset and wipe. Device is still stuck on boot screen and keeps rebooting.
Try the guide here.
And when you flash TWRP, uncheck the auto reboot box in Odin. After it flashes, unplug and power off tab. Then boot to recovery, that should work
Ok guys im in some really deap ****. This is what happend
I was trying to flash my SGH-T999 with cm-2xxxxxxNIGHTLY-d2lte to get the 4.4.4kitkat upgrade. Rooting with clockworkmod using Odin V1.85 was succesfull. I got into recovery mode, wiped data factory, /cache, and /delvik cache/ and i went on to install zip from sdcard. The installation failed, tried severals times and it still fails. And when i try switching it on, it boots with the SAMSUNG Logo and goes back off, then comes back on again with a "Recovery Booting" written on the top left hand corner of the screen, and then it boots into recovery mode. When i hit Reboot System, it does same thing. I have tried downloading the recovery but my SD-Card slot seems to be damage of which the recovery needs to be put on, and more so i cant detect if the memory card i install is ready or not.
Flash twrp to the phone. Cwm has not been updated for a while.
A few months ago I flashed TWRP 2.8.7.0 using Heimdall just fine, no problems. Now I've been trying to flash the latest TWRP 3.0.2, I can't seem to get it to boot, the flash is successful. Then I reflash the older version, and it's not booting into recovery. I'm not too familiar with Samsung phones, but I've been doing this for a long time on my Moto X 2014 using ADB/Fastboot, without issues.
I was able to return to stock firmware using Odin.
Hi to everyone.
Recently, I wanted to mod my tablet (SM-T805 chagalllite) and install the TWRP, and then a custom ROM. I followed a guide, dowloaded the twrp.img.tar file, dowloaded ODIN (3.13) and continued. I started my tablet in Fastboot/Odin mode, selected the file under the AP checkbox, connected it to the computer and then flashed the recovery. It said PASS and immediatly after it rebooted I pressed the key combo Power+Home+VolUp but it started normally. When I returned to the fastboot mode, it said KNOX WARRANTY VOID 1, so it did something. But simply the recovery wont start up, although I retried another 3 times. I tried with the AutoRoot package, it did the red android thing, the SuperSu app was there but the Root Binary wasn't. Any help?
P.S:
The twrp and odin are both at last version.
Nevermind, I solved my problem. I installed CF Autoroot which reinstalled stock recovery, and flashed TWRP using its official app.:good:
I need help was using twrp 321 some thing for quite a while and had no issues flashing ROMs back up ect. But I tried to do a restore and it failed due to , unable to mount system.
Ok no problem i thought I'll reboot and try again. Only now twrp loads the splash screen then reboots it self. IV tried updating to latest version with Odin still doesn't help. Samsung t805 here please help
t1m0thy001 said:
I need help was using twrp 321 some thing for quite a while and had no issues flashing ROMs back up ect. But I tried to do a restore and it failed due to , unable to mount system.
Ok no problem i thought I'll reboot and try again. Only now twrp loads the splash screen then reboots it self. IV tried updating to latest version with Odin still doesn't help. Samsung t805 here please help
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Ok I fixed it the back up from twrp curreupted the recovery partition. Even reinstall twrp doesn't work or trying to get the stock recovery. To fix it you need to download the entire stock ROM and install the ap via oden in odin mode. My system didn't even boot stock but this fixed the recovery partition and could flash twrp and install a custom ROM