I have a stock T999L that was stuck in a bootloop after a factory reset. I downloaded the current firmware from Sammobile and flashed it via ODIN 3.10.7 thinking it would fix it. Now it gets to the T-Mobile animation screen and stays there. The volume up button doesn't work, it's stuck so I can't use the volume down button either. I was able to to get it into download mode via the jig method. I have flashed the firmware three times already hoping that one would take. Any ideas would be helpful.
Sounds like you need to perform a factory wipe in stock recovery before the phone will boot.
audit13 said:
Sounds like you need to perform a factory wipe in stock recovery before the phone will boot.
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How would I do that without the volume buttons?
I'm not aware of a way to wipe with a volume button unless there is a way to wipe using adb or fastboot commands.
audit13 said:
I'm not aware of a way to wipe with a volume button unless there is a way to wipe using adb or fastboot commands.
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I can't get into recovery without the volume buttons, correct?
Not that I know of.
Are you able to solder a new power button to the motherboard?
Not really. I guess I'll have to buy another for listed for parts and snap a new one in it's place. Thanks for the help. I'll click your first reply.
Ebay has the volume button flex cable for between $2-$3.
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While tryng to r-flash my phone I must have done something wrong...I followed the required steps. My phone is now STUCK/FROZEN at the spalsh screen. I tried to flash again but I can't because the phone does not sync to the pc. I tried a soft reset, a hard reset by by holding the send/end buttons then pressing rest and nothing...I'm always the stuck in the splash screen. (the phone does not respond at all) Any suggestions on how to fix my issue or get to the bootloader screen..thanks!
You can flash a ROM in bootloader mode so go into it and reflash your ROM.
kareem9nba said:
You can flash a ROM in bootloader mode so go into it and reflash your ROM.
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How do I flash in bootloader mode...how do I get into it so i can flash?
Thanks for the fast reply.
Hold the camera button all the way down and soft reset the device simultaneously.
you can also just start flashing with a RUU.
kareem9nba said:
Hold the camera button all the way down and soft reset the device simultaneously.
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Thank you...I was able to get into the bootloader screen and fix my issue.
I have a rooted I747 with an android 4.3 rom. The LCD is broken and I am looking to sell it as is. I am wondering if it is possible to factory reset the device with a PC (possibly with kies, odin, or adb). I have seen a kies tutorial but it bricks devices running android 4.3. Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
efaustus9 said:
I have a rooted I747 with an android 4.3 rom. The LCD is broken and I am looking to sell it as is. I am wondering if it is possible to factory reset the device with a PC (possibly with kies, odin, or adb). I have seen a kies tutorial but it bricks devices running android 4.3. Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
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If the phone still has a stock recovery you can boot into it and factory reset the device. Getting into stock recovery and using it is all done with the volume rocker and power buttons, so the broken screen won't be a problem.
jason2678 said:
If the phone still has a stock recovery you can boot into it and factory reset the device. Getting into stock recovery and using it is all done with the volume rocker and power buttons, so the broken screen won't be a problem.
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Thanks, I've found that method elsewhere;
Enter recovery by holding the volume up, home button and power button simultaneously while booting. Wait 20 seconds after first vibration. After 20 seconds push the volume down button three times, then press the power button, wait for vibration and reset should be complete.
I am still somewhat curious to know if it is possible to do it remotely with a PC.
Best method I can think of from a PC would be flash this with Odin: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52341560&postcount=227
Only flash that if you're sure you were on stock 4.3 with MJB firmware, or you'll brick. Did you have ADB enabled before the screen broke? It would give you a method to check firmware without the screen.
Sorry about the post above. You said broken LCD, but I heard broken digitizer. I thought you could still see what you were doing. I still think stock recovery could work in a pinch; just find a Youtube video and mimic it. Sounds like you've already got the button presses down. Good luck
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
Pull the battery to turn off the phone and put it back in. If you feel the phone power up by vibrating upon putting the battery in and not touching the power button and go into loop then you have a bad power button. Do you have this problem? If so, then your only options are repair or remove the power button (there is an alternate way to power the phone up). Let us know if it is a bad power button or not so that hardware issues can be accounted for and go from there.
NOTE: The S3 has been known for some time now to have power buttons that fail. Mine did, and I opt to remove mine as I could not justify paying for a repair when the S3 is my backup phone and test platform and I have a method to power up. I use widgets for controlling power off, restarts, and recovery once powered up.
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
Gargat said:
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
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That works. Glad you found a way to get through it.
n_alvarez2007 said:
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
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Bootloops have not been uncommon when reverting from LP to KK. Once you have flashed TWRP as others in the thread have suggested, you will probably need to wipe/ format the internal sdcard. The other remedy some have posted is to load a stock recovery and do a factory reset from within that stock recovery.
Not sure how to get into recovery without a power button.
Is the button loose or not functioning at all? You could try opening the phone and removing everything from the frame and see if the power button functions.
I haven't tried this with my SGS3, but on my Acer tablet I have booted into recovery using adb and fastboot. This requires connection to a computer, but not a power button. Unless you have a touch version of a custom recovery installed you still would not be able to select an item.
You may be able to flash a custom recovery using adb. I had broken my stock recovery on that tablet and used fastboot to reflash a working stock recovery.
After flashing with ODIN, my phone is stuck with a samsung logo. I tried flashing it several times but the bootloop exists. Also, I can start my phone in download mode only, no recovery mode is showing (vol up+home+power button). Then I tried TWRP but nothing works. It would be great if anyone suggested something. :crying:
Which hardware button is broken?
audit13 said:
Which hardware button is broken?
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The volume up button. before proceeding to download mode, there is a confirmation message that says press vol up to proceed to download mode, I have to press continuously 15/20 times to do this.
You can use a USB jig to get into download mode.
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You can use a USB jig to get into download mode.
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Yeah, I have got into download mode and flashed with odin several times, but the bootloop continues.
You probably need to perform a factory reset from stock recovery which, I assume you can't do since the volume up button is broken.
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You probably need to perform a factory reset from stock recovery which, I assume you can't do since the volume up button is broken.
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umm, any idea/suggestions? Thanks a lot by the way.
Are you flashing with reset selected in Odin? Can't think of any other way to do a factory reset.
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Are you flashing with reset selected in Odin? Can't think of any other way to do a factory reset.
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Could you please elaborate and guide me through the process?
Sorry, I meant to say select the auto-reboot option. Sometimes, after flashing a stock ROM with auto reboot selected, the phone will go into recovery and perform a wipe of at least cache.
If auto reboot doesn't solve the issue, I'm not sure what else to suggest other than fixing the volume button or replacing the motherboard.
[SOLVED] Download mode can't be removed, I had to try all dat long but I finally could boot into it.
Hi,
So... I had a working Samsung Galaxy S9 (SM-G960F/DS) running Lineage OS yesterday. I noticed something wrong related to the mobile network in my country (FR) and decided to flash the correct stock firmware matching the country code XEF before doing a full LOS reinstall.
Fast-forward 20hrs of download, I perform the flash operation this morning using heimdall(1) and reboot.
Now, the phone bootloops. I can't get into download mode as usual, and the only thing that is available is the stock recovery mode that allows:
apply update from adb
apply update from sdcard
wipe data
wipe cache
mount /system
view logs
run graphics test
I have a working all-countries firmware archive that contains the one that was working previously (minus the mobile network problem). But since I don't have download-mode anymore I can't install it. I tried adb sideload (which is available via the "apply update from adb" option), wipe data/cache to no avail.
Is that hard-brick? Did you ever experience a similar situation? I think there's no way out of this but any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks again!
You should be able to get into Download Mode (Vol Down & Bixby & Power)
Keep trying, try keeping hold of the button combo until after the phone reboots twice hopefully the second time into download mode
Download mode has nothing to do with firmware or recovery that has been flashed, and if you can enter recovery mode, it doesn't sound like a hardware problem either
And use a Windows machine & ODIN 3.13.1 to flash stock
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, i tried many tiimes and I usually can do that very easily. It seems flashing the corrupted images wiped it out.
mateba said:
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, i tried many tiimes and I usually can do that very easily. It seems flashing the corrupted images wiped it out.
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Impossible as it is not part of the firmware, nor can be touched by firmware, it is part of the hardware (Think BIOS vs OS)
You can even 100% wipe all internal storage clean so there is no OS at all and download mode will still work fine
Keep trying
Okay I guess it's possible that the download mode is still there but I can't reach it.
I've been trying hundreds of times every combination I can think of (including Home + Vol Down + Power that used to work).
Any alternative way to trigger the download mode ?
How are you trying Home? There is no physical home button
The button combo is Vol Down & Bixby & Power from a powered off state
Keep a hold of all 3 until it hits the Warning screen, then hit Vol Up to enter Download mode
No other way to access it that I know of, USB Jig hasn't worked since a few models back
Have you tried factory resetting from inside recovery? Unless you used CSC during the stock firmware flash, that could be a reason for the bootloop
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How are you trying Home? There is no physical home button
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Yeah sorry, speaking of the Bixby button.
*Detection* said:
The button combo is Vol Down & Bixby & Power from a powered off state
Keep a hold of all 3 until it hits the Warning screen, then hit Vol Up to enter Download mode
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That's what used to work indeed. I did that many times before.
*Detection* said:
No other way to access it that I know of, USB Jig hasn't worked since a few models back
Have you tried factory resetting from inside recovery? Unless you used CSC during the stock firmware flash, that could be a reason for the bootloop
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I tried factory reset/wipe cache from inside the recovery and yes, I used CSC.
mateba said:
Yeah sorry, speaking of the Bixby button.
That's what used to work indeed. I did that many times before.
I tried factory reset/wipe cache from inside the recovery and yes, I used CSC.
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Maybe the issue is with the Volume Down button, does it work inside of recovery for navigating the menu ?
What happens when you try entering Download mode? It just tries to boot as if you didn't press anything?
Only other thing is to hold Volume Down & Bixby, then connect the USB cable to power it on (instead of using the power button)
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Maybe the issue is with the Volume Down button, does it work inside of recovery for navigating the menu ?
What happens when you try entering Download mode? It just tries to boot as if you didn't press anything?
Only other thing is to hold Volume Down & Bixby, then connect the USB cable to power it on (instead of using the power button)
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The volume down button works perfectly in the recovery menu.
When I try entering download mode normally while device is powered down, the phone never turns on.
When I try to hold the buttons during the interval of the boot loop, it goes to recovery (yes, even with volume down, not volume up).
The other technique you mentioned also went to recovery.
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Impossible as it is not part of the firmware, nor can be touched by firmware, it is part of the hardware (Think BIOS vs OS)
You can even 100% wipe all internal storage clean so there is no OS at all and download mode will still work fine
Keep trying
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BINGO! I kept trying. Did this all day literally hundreds of times.
And it just worked.
I didn't change the way I do it, I think there was some nasty timing going on with the boot loop.
Anyways... lesson learnt: download mode is indeed hardcoded. What a day!
Thanks for being so helpful!
mateba said:
BINGO! I kept trying. Did this all day literally hundreds of times.
And it just worked.
I didn't change the way I do it, I think there was some nasty timing going on with the boot loop.
Anyways... lesson learnt: download mode is indeed hardcoded. What a day!
Thanks for being so helpful!
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Good stuff, yea well whatever it was hopefully it's sorted now, use ODIN this time