Phone in double bootloop HELP!!!!! - Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can't get in recovery, can get into download mode. I tried to flash Odin and that doesnt matter everythiing pass and still on the double boot someone help please any advice

Anyways I can't factory reset, wipe or nothing because all my phone do is download mode, I cant go into recovery my phone is not letting me wipe nothing, Odin works, i flashed numerous firmwares from BPA1 TO PD1 WTF!

Please tell the class what you did to get to this dire predicament, as precisely as you can.

I was on pd1 mm rooted Jasmine rom
Thank you for the reply first off, my wife said she was using it while i was out and it died she plugged it up for me and the screen i guess that had press home button for normal, factory etc and she accidently did factory i really dont know i tried to charge and been double booting ever since cant do anything but download mode. Thank you again

uchiha79 said:
Thank you for the reply first off, my wife said she was using it while i was out and it died she plugged it up for me and the screen i guess that had press home button for normal, factory etc and she accidently did factory i really dont know i tried to charge and been double booting ever since cant do anything but download mode. Thank you again
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That's odd. A couple of days ago, you were on a T-Mobile ROM and in "beast mode." The ROM's developer seemed incredulous as to how you had gotten into "beast mode." I suspect there's a lot more going on here than you're letting on.
Under the circumstances, I don't think I can help you.

Yeah i jumped backed to Jasmine
I like roms whats wrong with that, just checking if you can help thats all

Ive been doing this since s3
uchiha79 said:
I like roms whats wrong with that, just checking if you can help thats all
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iYhis is the first time this ever happened and it wasnt even on my watch lol

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My phone wont turn on after flashing AOKP's Rom Please Help :(

hi evryone, after following every step on AOKP's rom, u know i super wiped then flashed rom then flashed gapps then cache wipe, adn after that i selected reboot system now and the my phone jst turned off and never turned back on anymore, cant go into download mode either, if i connect it to the charger it wont charge, i dont know what to do??? please help me
mummraa said:
hi evryone, after following every step on AOKP's rom, u know i super wiped then flashed rom then flashed gapps then cache wipe, adn after that i selected reboot system now and the my phone jst turned off and never turned back on anymore, cant go into download mode either, if i connect it to the charger it wont charge, i dont know what to do??? please help me
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Was it the right version for Hercules?
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Seems like you installed another aokp for another device. Other guy did same thing .
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What is the exact name of the file you flashed?
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thanks for the replies guys! yea i guess i did that. smh.
the name is: aokp_d2tmo_milestone-6_R3.zip
the main link was broken and somebody posted a link to that file.
so now does this mean my phone wont work anymore?
mummraa said:
thanks for the replies guys! yea i guess i did that. smh.
the name is: aokp_d2tmo_milestone-6_R3.zip
the main link was broken and somebody posted a link to that file.
so now does this mean my phone wont work anymore?
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I could tell you right now, that's not for our phone, ours is the Hercules. If it can't go into download mode, im sorry, its bricked
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dam a bricked t989?
its ok galaxy nexus is only 350$ now and comes with jelly bean :fingers-crossed:
mummraa said:
thanks for the replies guys! yea i guess i did that. smh.
the name is: aokp_d2tmo_milestone-6_R3.zip
the main link was broken and somebody posted a link to that file.
so now does this mean my phone wont work anymore?
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That's why it's never a good idea to flash links that are just randomly posted through a thread unless it's either from the op or you know for certain it's for our phone. Only options you have now that it's bricked is either jtag or go through insurance if you have it.
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That's why it's never a good idea to flash links that are just randomly posted through a thread unless it's either from the op or you know for certain it's for our phone. Only options you have now that it's bricked is either jtag or go through insurance if you have it.
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thanks 0Tolerance! i fouund a place that does JTAG service and it seems that would make my phone work again, ill try that next week and ill let you guys know what happened.
I've solved a Motorola like that
mummraa said:
hi evryone, after following every step on AOKP's rom, u know i super wiped then flashed rom then flashed gapps then cache wipe, adn after that i selected reboot system now and the my phone jst turned off and never turned back on anymore, cant go into download mode either, if i connect it to the charger it wont charge, i dont know what to do??? please help me
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Hi! Today I was trying to put another ROM into my Motorola XT317 and I made the same mistake as you - put the wrong rom and the cell have turned off. After trying many and many things, I was on the last light of my hope, I removed the battery and plugged the phone into the pc.
The buttons of home, back and search blinked and turned on. So I though: let me put the battery on and see what happens. Then, after that, the screen turned on with the battery design of recharging.
I know it is a Motorola but it would help you or other users with the same thing or phone model as my.
Thanks!
Sonente said:
Hi! Today I was trying to put another ROM into my Motorola XT317 and I made the same mistake as you - put the wrong rom and the cell have turned off. After trying many and many things, I was on the last light of my hope, I removed the battery and plugged the phone into the pc.
The buttons of home, back and search blinked and turned on. So I though: let me put the battery on and see what happens. Then, after that, the screen turned on with the battery design of recharging.
I know it is a Motorola but it would help you or other users with the same thing or phone model as my.
Thanks!
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This won't help. If you flash a S3 ROM on this phone, you're bricked. Period.
LoopDoGG79 said:
This won't help. If you flash a S3 ROM on this phone, you're bricked. Period.
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Sorry. I just tried to help.
actually this guys MobileTechVideos.com helped me and i have my phone back! it was like 50 bucks.
i'd recommend mobiletech jtag to fix your phone. i bricked my phone too flashing a wrong kernel. it was $50 but well worth it saving a dumb mistake i made.

[Q] LG Optimus G Stuck On LG Screen Need Help.

I was making a TWRP Backup when all of the sudden my phone just randomly turns off. I grabed my phone and it was really hot. Tried turning it on, but nothing happened. Then I connected it to the ac adapter and it turned on, but it would go to the LG logo, the screen turns black then it restarts. This does not stop unless I unplug it. I had previously made two backups before and nothing like this happened, but this time I enabled conpression<-------- This must have been what caused this. All I want to know is if this can be fixed or not. If it could be fixed I would be so happy if somone could tell me how to fix this. THANK YOU. P.S. THIS PHONE IS A BEAST. D
cgtrr34 said:
I was making a TWRP Backup when all of the sudden my phone just randomly turns off. I grabed my phone and it was really hot. Tried turning it on, but nothing happened. Then I connected it to the ac adapter and it turned on, but it would go to the LG logo, the screen turns black then it restarts. This does not stop unless I unplug it. I had previously made two backups before and nothing like this happened, but this time I enabled conpression<-------- This must have been what caused this. All I want to know is if this can be fixed or not. If it could be fixed I would be so happy if somone could tell me how to fix this. THANK YOU. P.S. THIS PHONE IS A BEAST. D
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Can you boot into recovery and restore a previous backup?
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cowfodder said:
Can you boot into recovery and restore a previous backup?
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It does not let me go into recovery, the screen goes black then restarts. All I can do is go into fastboot and Download mode.
cgtrr34 said:
It does not let me go into recovery, the screen goes black then restarts. All I can do is go into fastboot and Download mode.
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Likely bricked. Do you have flashing notification and capacitive lights? Have you LGNPST'd? If yes to both of those questions, you're in the same predicament as I was and hopefully you have insurance, because your phone is fried.
xboxfanj said:
Likely bricked. Do you have flashing notification and capacitive lights? Have you LGNPST'd? If yes to both of those questions, you're in the same predicament as I was and hopefully you have insurance, because your phone is fried.
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I do have flashing notification and capacitive lights. But I don't know what LGNPST is.(sorry I'm new to this) this is my first android phone
cgtrr34 said:
I do have flashing notification and capacitive lights. But I don't know what LGNPST is.(sorry I'm new to this) this is my first android phone
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Sounds like you are toast. Take it to Sprint and have em swap it out for ya. Hopefully you either have insurance or are within your 14-days to return it.
xboxfanj said:
Sounds like you are toast. Take it to Sprint and have em swap it out for ya. Hopefully you either have insurance or are within your 14-days to return it.
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Will they swap a rooted and unlocked phone?
cgtrr34 said:
Will they swap a rooted and unlocked phone?
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Sprint's policy on root is to document it but not do anything about it, so they would swap it. If you're worried, I can help you restore stock firmware.
xboxfanj said:
Sprint's policy on root is to document it but not do anything about it, so they would swap it. If you're worried, I can help you restore stock firmware.
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How could I restore it to stock firmware. And also thank you for replying back and helping me out
cgtrr34 said:
How could I restore it to stock firmware. And also thank you for replying back and helping me out
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I will PM you about that since it is against forum rules and perhaps laws to post copyrighted stuff here.
xboxfanj said:
I will PM you about that since it is against forum rules and perhaps laws to post copyrighted stuff here.
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OK thank You so much!
cgtrr34 said:
I was making a TWRP Backup when all of the sudden my phone just randomly turns off. I grabed my phone and it was really hot. Tried turning it on, but nothing happened. Then I connected it to the ac adapter and it turned on, but it would go to the LG logo, the screen turns black then it restarts. This does not stop unless I unplug it. I had previously made two backups before and nothing like this happened, but this time I enabled conpression<-------- This must have been what caused this. All I want to know is if this can be fixed or not. If it could be fixed I would be so happy if somone could tell me how to fix this. THANK YOU. P.S. THIS PHONE IS A BEAST. D
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WTF!!!!! I just bricked my phone in less then 24 hours of owning it. I just rooted and unlocked it and right after making a TWRP Backup and rebooting my phone wouldn't turn on and it was HOT AS HELL!!
I got it exchanged at Best Buy but now im scared to do anything with it.
shook187 said:
WTF!!!!! I just bricked my phone in less then 24 hours of owning it. I just rooted and unlocked it and right after making a TWRP Backup and rebooting my phone wouldn't turn on and it was HOT AS HELL!!
I got it exchanged at Best Buy but now im scared to do anything with it.
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Same happened to me. The phone overheats in recovery, so do what you need to do and then get out of it.
xboxfanj said:
Same happened to me. The phone overheats in recovery, so do what you need to do and then get out of it.
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Im on the new phone and Im using clockwork and all is fine so far. I definitely suggest guys stop using twrp.
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Restore to stock when stuck at LG logo screen
xboxfanj said:
I will PM you about that since it is against forum rules and perhaps laws to post copyrighted stuff here.
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Would you please help me out to restore to stock from a stuck LG logo screen? I can't even boot into fastboot or recovery. I tried LGNPST number of tries with different .bin files with no luck. I also tried a lot of diff things, too. Please email me at [email protected]. Thank you very much!
phatjulie said:
Would you please help me out to restore to stock from a stuck LG logo screen? I can't even boot into fastboot or recovery. I tried LGNPST number of tries with different .bin files with no luck. I also tried a lot of diff things, too. Please email me at [email protected]. Thank you very much!
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I suggest you TEP it.
Sent from my LG-LS970 using xda premium
phatjulie said:
Would you please help me out to restore to stock from a stuck LG logo screen? I can't even boot into fastboot or recovery. I tried LGNPST number of tries with different .bin files with no luck. I also tried a lot of diff things, too. Please email me at [email protected]. Thank you very much!
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Pull battery using a torx t5 screwdriver and phillips #00 if you don't have insurance.
xboxfanj said:
Pull battery using a torx t5 screwdriver and phillips #00 if you don't have insurance.
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What's the purpose of pulling battery out? Just a try? I'm gonna have to get it from Fry's tomorrow and try that first.
phatjulie said:
What's the purpose of pulling battery out? Just a try? I'm gonna have to get it from Fry's tomorrow and try that first.
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Because your phone doesn't know if it needs to be in charging mode or booting. Pulling battery will fix it.
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I had a similar problem as you. Upon getting the phone I rooted and used the FreeGee app from the Google Play store to unlock the bootloader. Everything seemed fine and dandy, until one day when I let my phone's battery drain completely. Pluggin it in to a wall charger resulted in the failed boot where the LG logo flashes before going to a blank, but backlit screen. Luckily, the first few times this happened, through a combination of quickly plugging and unplugging the usb cord and holding the volume up+power button, I could get it into recovery (TWRP). Then a simple cache & dalvik cache wipe, and the phone would boot up as if nothing ever happened. Very strange.
Well yesterday this happened again, however, this time there was no getting the phone into recovery. My previous methods of button mashing and plugging and unplugging weren't working. So, I decided to bite the bullet and use LGNPST to get back to ZV7. Now, like you mentioned, this failed boot would automatically happen, without pressing the power button to turn it on. So it was difficult to get the phone to stay off. I found that with the phone unplugged, if you continue to press the power button until the blank backlit screen turns off, AND continue to hold the power button for an additional five seconds, the phone would stay off and not auto power on into the failed boot.
Once I was able to get the phone to stay off, I pressed the middle of the volume key to depress both volume up and down, and then plugged a usb cord that was attached to my computer. This powered on the phone into download mode. Following the LGNPST guide I was able to get to around 67% complete before my phone turned off and an error message flashed on the computer screen telling me to power cycle the phone and reconnect. Well, the whole 67%/85% LGNPST failure is apparently common and not indicative of an actual failure; HOWEVER, my phone became completely unresponsive. It wouldn't power on at all. It didn't matter if the usb was unplugged or connected to the computer or wall charger. So, I was forced to unplug the battery. I followed this tutorial and successfully disconnected and reconnected the battery cord, and the phone shot back to life. It even booted up into the factory stock ZV7 rom. I guess that LGNPST was successful. It looked like I was on my way to returning my phone to breezy's deodexed ZV9 stock rom that I was previously running.
I went ahead and re-rooted, ran the FreeGee app again, and rebooted into recovery. Then I made a backup and attempted to flash my new rom. Now, I think this is where I royally screwed up. I was pleasantly surprised to see my screen layout and all of my settings still intact after LGNPST back to ZV7 and thought I could just wipe the caches and ignore the factory reset and system wipe before flashing. Perhaps it was this, but part of me also thinks there might be something wrong with my battery draining extremely fast in recovery.
I proceeded to flash and all seemed good, but rebooting resulted in the LG logo failed boot that we have already discussed. So, I went ahead and repeated the LGNPST-re-root process numerous times (switching to the freegee 0.5 batch file instead of the app). Everytime after the first initial restore, I could never get my phone to enter recovery. As soon as I rebooted after using freegee, the phone would be soft bricked again. Sometimes I would get the LG logo thing, other times I would get the dreaded alternating flashing red notification light and soft keys. A battery pull was usually required in these circumstances before I could get back into download mode to start all over.
I was about ready to give up when I took to the LGOG irc channel. That's when Xboxfanj stepped in and helped me out IMMENSELY. Over the course of several hours, he walked me through flashing some partitions in ADB. At times it seemed like there was no hope and that I should have just returned the phone, but he failed to acquiesce, we pushed forth trying a couple of other bootloader options. The new bootloader appeared to have fixed the phones erratic behavior with powering on and off, but I had no rom to boot into and no recovery. Xboxfanj recommended using fastboot to flash over a recovery. Once in the new bootloader screen my Windows XP machine detected new hardware and wanted some drivers. I attempted to use the [ADB/FB/APX Driver] Universal Naked Driver 0.72, but XP indicated that I was missing 'winusbcoinstaller2.dll'.
I grabbed winusbcoinstaller2.dll from here and all was good. Fastboot recognized the phone, I was able to flash recovery and subsequently boot into recovery. From there I reformatted the system, wiped data/factory restore, wiped cache, wiped dalvik cache, and flashed breezy's ZV9 deodexed rom.
Fortunately, after around 7 hours, I am happy to say my phone is back to being rooted, unlocked, and running ZV9. It powers on and off properly and can get into recovery without a hitch. I'm still curious what will happen if I let my battery drain completely. Perhaps I'll try it some time this week. I'll be sure to post back here if/when I do that. All in all, it was a harrowing, but educational experience.
Anyway, just wanted to give a big THANK YOU to Xboxfanj! You really are the man :good:. Thanks for your patience and determination.

***Emergency Thread*** Here To Help!

I have created this thread for all you SG-SIII Noobs & Senior Members!
The purpose of this thread is to limit the number of (sometimes useless) threads, that are created over a simple problem that can easily be solved by READING OR SEARCHING.
This is the Emergency thread!
*Did you run into a problem and need quick assistance?
*Do you have a question or concern about your SG-SIII device?
Don't panic just ask here and I or WE THE SG-SIII COMMUNITY will gladly help!
In case of emergency!
Okay I guess I'll be the first to post.
About an hour ago my phone shut off at 26% battery (16gb galaxy S3 running CM10.1 nightly 01/16). As I went to turn it back on it will boot into the CM splash screen spin a few times and just shut off. I attempted to charge it, and turn it back on but same thing. After that an attempt to get into CWM, which I was able to get in and it shut off while I was in it. I also tried putting the phone in download mode and about the same time frame it took for the other attempts resulted in a shut down.
Any advice? Or am I stuck doing a warranty exchange?
Rayman0625 said:
Okay I guess I'll be the first to post.
About an hour ago my phone shut off at 26% battery (16gb galaxy S3 running CM10.1 nightly 01/16). As I went to turn it back on it will boot into the CM splash screen spin a few times and just shut off. I attempted to charge it, and turn it back on but same thing. After that an attempt to get into CWM, which I was able to get in and it shut off while I was in it. I also tried putting the phone in download mode and about the same time frame it took for the other attempts resulted in a shut down.
Any advice? Or am I stuck doing a warranty exchange?
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Sounds like its your battery not a hardware problem. Leave it overnight or a couple hours charging and if it indeed boots up its your battery.
If it doesn't then flash stock and test it if the same result then call up that Warranty. I've seen this same issue with other devices where the battery dies at 50%+ and usually replacing the battery fixes the problem. Test your battery for overheating or swollen.
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...Awesome... said:
Sounds like its your battery not a hardware problem. Leave it overnight or a couple hours charging and if it indeed boots up its your battery.
If it doesn't then flash stock and test it if the same result then call up that Warranty. I've seen this same issue with other devices where the battery dies at 50%+ and usually replacing the battery fixes the problem. Test your battery for overheating or swollen.
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The battery isnt swollen, thats one of the things I checked also. I thought it might be that, the only other option I have is to try a different battery. The good thing is I work in a tmobile store so im gonna give that a shot tomorrow.
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Can you start it without battery connected to the wall charger? If so try wipe cache. Or after reflash ROM.
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lintz said:
Can you start it without battery connected to the wall charger? If so try wipe cache. Or after reflash ROM.
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Phone wont boot without the battery in, and with it in I cant stay in recovery without with rebooting.
Rayman0625 said:
The battery isnt swollen, thats one of the things I checked also. I thought it might be that, the only other option I have is to try a different battery. The good thing is I work in a tmobile store so im gonna give that a shot tomorrow.
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Even better then lol just test it out at work. I'm about 80% its your battery specially if you OV/UC.
I have the t-mobile US t999.
Last night I was having an odd issue with the networking dropping. I've had the phone for about a month, modded since day 1 with a CM10 variation of a rom (sorry, I forget the exact rom). I had no issues whatsoever up until this point. After a few restarts thinking maybe it was a fluke issue with the network, or network signal in my room, the phone forced itself into emergency call mode only. I couldn't get it to come out.
So I decided I was going to odin on a stock rom as I could get it into download mode, that went through successfully. When the phone boots, I get the android taking off (Tmobile 4g) logo. Then the white samsung logo, and it doesn't go beyond this. I know this can take long so I left it there for about an hour, nothing. The phone also displays a blue led the entire time it's hanging as well.
Also worth noting, when I attempt to boot into recovery it just vibrates over and over.
Not sure what my next steps should be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
heartspains88 said:
I have the t-mobile US t999.
Last night I was having an odd issue with the networking dropping. I've had the phone for about a month, modded since day 1 with a CM10 variation of a rom (sorry, I forget the exact rom). I had no issues whatsoever up until this point. After a few restarts thinking maybe it was a fluke issue with the network, or network signal in my room, the phone forced itself into emergency call mode only. I couldn't get it to come out.
So I decided I was going to odin on a stock rom as I could get it into download mode, that went through successfully. When the phone boots, I get the android taking off (Tmobile 4g) logo. Then the white samsung logo, and it doesn't go beyond this. I know this can take long so I left it there for about an hour, nothing. The phone also displays a blue led the entire time it's hanging as well.
Also worth noting, when I attempt to boot into recovery it just vibrates over and over.
Not sure what my next steps should be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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after you odin, you need to wipe data/ factory reset to boot. If you can't get into recovery ( Power, Home Button, and Volume Up), then try reflashing your stock image in Odin and check your MD5 sum, so you can rule out a bad download
Thanks for the reply, I'm re-downloading the stock rom now to verify it's integrity and do a new flash. I cannot get into recovery, so we will see after the new flash. Pleading ignorance on one subject, how would I go about checking the MD5 sum to verify the file has no issues?
Additionally I did try to Odin recovery and still could not boot into it, this was however before attempting to re-download and flash a stock rom again.
**Edit//Update** Re-downloaded and flashed stock rom, was able to get into recovery and wipe, booted up fine.
Wow.. great idea for a thread and THANK YOU!!
Perfect timing too cause i need a little help please.
I am not new to android but new to samsung (WOW, didnt realize it would be so different from HTC ont he rooting and flashing side of things).
Long story short. I have a tmo s3. Bought it today and wanted to root. phone was working perfectly as it shoudl on stock rom unrooted. I downloaded the tool kit v7, used that to root adn install TWRP and rebooted into the stock rom that is now rooted. Still everything working perfect.
Here is what i did next and where the issues start.
Downloaded Synergy r290, went to recovery.
Wiped Cache, Dalvik, Data, and System (made a backup first)
flashed the rom and rebooted to system
However, nothing ever happened. I see the samsung logo, then all goes black and nothing happens (left it there for 10min)
I cant seem to get back into recovery holding vol up, home and power either and have no adb access to use that. I AM able to get into download mode which i know i can fix my problem here with odin, but i am just not sure what to flash and where.
Is there an easier way??
Thanks in advance for any help!
frettfreak said:
Wow.. great idea for a thread and THANK YOU!!
Perfect timing too cause i need a little help please.
I am not new to android but new to samsung (WOW, didnt realize it would be so different from HTC ont he rooting and flashing side of things).
Long story short. I have a tmo s3. Bought it today and wanted to root. phone was working perfectly as it shoudl on stock rom unrooted. I downloaded the tool kit v7, used that to root adn install TWRP and rebooted into the stock rom that is now rooted. Still everything working perfect.
Here is what i did next and where the issues start.
Downloaded Synergy r290, went to recovery.
Wiped Cache, Dalvik, Data, and System (made a backup first)
flashed the rom and rebooted to system
However, nothing ever happened. I see the samsung logo, then all goes black and nothing happens (left it there for 10min)
I cant seem to get back into recovery holding vol up, home and power either and have no adb access to use that. I AM able to get into download mode which i know i can fix my problem here with odin, but i am just not sure what to flash and where.
Is there an easier way??
Thanks in advance for any help!
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If you absolutely can't get into recovery to restore your backup..
Flash the UVDLJA root66 file in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687 via odin. You will have the latest UVDLJA JB update, and will be rooted. From there, install goo manager from the play store to flash TWRP.
After that you're all set to flash whatever you want (just make sure it's for the Tmobile s3).
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Towle said:
If you absolutely can't get into recovery to restore your backup..
Flash the UVDLJA root66 file in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687 via odin. You will have the latest UVDLJA JB update, and will be rooted. From there, install goo manager from the play store to flash TWRP.
After that you're all set to flash whatever you want (just make sure it's for the Tmobile s3).
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Ok, easy enough, but do i put that in the PDA field in Odin or phone?
This sounds MUCh easier than what i thought i would have to do.. thanks a ton!
frettfreak said:
Ok, easy enough, but do i put that in the PDA field in Odin or phone?
This sounds MUCh easier than what i thought i would have to do.. thanks a ton!
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Just upload the file to PDA and hit start. Make sure to let it finish completely, once the phone reboots, it's done.
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Flashing stock with Odin can take up to ten minutes its normal like the man said above just let it do its thing
Towle said:
Just upload the file to PDA and hit start. Make sure to let it finish completely, once the phone reboots, it's done.
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Worked great! Thanks!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113883
Let's see if you have any solution for me?
Weird problem. When I set kernel frequencies on my phone, they at some point get locked at the maximum frequency. This has happened every time I flash a new ROM or kernel, and I'm worried that it will soon start to affect the battery. I'm using the msmdvcs governor on both kernels that I've tried (stock and faux)
ohshootrawr said:
Weird problem. When I set kernel frequencies on my phone, they at some point get locked at the maximum frequency. This has happened every time I flash a new ROM or kernel, and I'm worried that it will soon start to affect the battery. I'm using the msmdvcs governor on both kernels that I've tried (stock and faux)
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Do u happened to have apps that control frequency like setcpu etc? They might be conflicting each other
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[Q] Samsung t989 Galaxy S II - Bootloop HELP please :(

I downloaded the Jedi Mind Trick JB 2 ROM and installed it via clocwork mod recovery .. That went fine but it took me a few days to realize I didnt have a working video camera anymore on my phone.. so I thought to flash a stock ROOTed rom instead...
Then I found this threat about an updated version of Jedi Mind Trick's ROM labled JB 3.. So I wiped as much as I could in recovery and chose to format all the options it gave me in recover , Format system , data , cache , emms(or something) .. and now when I boot the phone , it shows the first flash screen , and the samsung logo starts to shimmer then it reboots back to the splash screen and repeats this process everal times before just going black and sitting there..
So I've successfully bootlooped my phone doing this..
MY PROBLEM -- I don't know how to charge my phone or connect to it to install anything else..
Is this a serious problem? How can I charge my phone to continue troubleshooting it? It still has some battery to try some things but I don't know how to hook it up to transfer any other roms to it via USB cable and PC in it's current state..
I'm very computer savvy but I'm trying to learn this phone modding stuff and I realy hope I didn't brick my phone in this process.
Can someone please help me out here? I'll be on the forums religiously until I figure this out.
What should I start doing first??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!
still working at it
I think I'm at the point of having to use ODIN to flash a new rom since i cannot simply copy this rom to the sdcard to use clockwork to flash it .. Am I correct on this ?
For some reason this rom I found (should be stock rooted tmobile gSII rom) does not want to open from ODIN's PDA button cause its in .zip and not .tar or anything... I'm not sure how to flash this rom with ODIN ( I'm not even 100% sure this is how its supposed to go) Any suggestions ?
phew
UPDATE - So I managed to research enough to find out that there is no way to flash a CUSTOM rom with ODIN.. SO I had to download a stock (presumably rooted) t-mobile rom and flash THAT ...
Now I'm back up with a rooted rom and will begin re-installing clockwork and then my custom deodexed rooted rom afterward.
Thanks for all who almost kinda tried to care to reply in this past 2 hours =) -- As previously mentioned.. I am a nerd.. I just suck at phone modding. Haha
So , looks like I'm in the clear now and don't need any more support on this particular topic yet.
zarklon said:
UPDATE - So I managed to research enough to find out that there is no way to flash a CUSTOM rom with ODIN.. SO I had to download a stock (presumably rooted) t-mobile rom and flash THAT ...
Now I'm back up with a rooted rom and will begin re-installing clockwork and then my custom deodexed rooted rom afterward.
Thanks for all who almost kinda tried to care to reply in this past 2 hours =) -- As previously mentioned.. I am a nerd.. I just suck at phone modding. Haha
So , looks like I'm in the clear now and don't need any more support on this particular topic yet.
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Is this true? Through a recommendation (haven't done anything to my phone from rooting/flashing KANGSJUGGERNAUT2 years ago), I tried to flash CM10 and ended up with a bootloop myself. Tried flashing through ODIN but it kept crashing; does anyone know why?
Afterward, I tried to reflash it through CWM and from then on bootloops into a installation process that never completes.
For some reason my CWM turned super slow, freezes/hangs and reboots after a few minutes.
I gave the phone to a friend who does this stuff on the regular but he said my initial flash wasn't complete cause in download mode says I'm still running official? No clue.
I was told this via email/chat: "No luck, it won't even boot anymore, I think I'll just bring it back tmrw morn
10:43 PM
Sorry I'm at a wedding (yea I know random) I left my phone with coat check
OK I've narrowed down the reason but not the solution, you had an AOKP based ROM which fundamentally is based on CyanogenMod, but it wasn't correctly flashed as the phone still thought it has factory ROMs still running
11:10 PM
Clockworkmod(even though it was working before) wasn't accessing the partitions of the phone correctly so it wasn't properly wiping or flashing properly.
11:12 PM
So basically from the first time you flashed cwm it didn't flash properly then the next time you flashed using the new recovery it didn't flash anything it was supposed to do itself properly , so basically it was a chain of events in addition to a bad boot loader, that's why it never went to recovery or download mode correctly
11:13 PM
That's something that had to do with the way the phone was built meaning you may of had a bad bootloader from the very begin and are now feeling the synptoms
Basically, and I would hate to be the reason or partially the reason you have a dead phone, basically it was a matter of coincedencr that it happened as this could of happened at anytime, once you have a bad boot loader its pretty much down hill from there"
Any helpful insight as how I can rectify this? is my phone truly dead? Sorry about the quoted format, it was copied and pasted.
If I were in your boat, I'd use Odin and flash the stock 4.1.2 ROM.
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tronmech said:
If I were in your boat, I'd use Odin and flash the stock 4.1.2 ROM.
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The phone won't turn on, unable to go into recovery and download mode; plugged in usb (hear connection beep but pressing power button plays disconnect button) to no avail. What can I do to unbrick?
Stock 4.1.2? Possible over a hardbricked T989 with old 2.3.6?
JahJahLoO said:
The phone won't turn on, unable to go into recovery and download mode; plugged in usb (hear connection beep but pressing power button plays disconnect button) to no avail. What can I do to unbrick?
Stock 4.1.2? Possible over a hardbricked T989 with old 2.3.6?
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sorry but i have to assume that you are not doing the 3 button recovery or download mode right.
Pull battery, put battery back in, hold power button & Vol +/- untill you see SAMSUNG on the screen ---> let go off power button(keep holding
Vol +/- button) .....u will see recovery. (assuming you did flash cwm before).
Let me know.
hit thanks.
sam.balia1012 said:
sorry but i have to assume that you are not doing the 3 button recovery or download mode right.
Pull battery, put battery back in, hold power button & Vol +/- untill you see SAMSUNG on the screen ---> let go off power button(keep holding
Vol +/- button) .....u will see recovery. (assuming you did flash cwm before).
Let me know.
hit thanks.
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I believe I am doing it correct, I have been entering recovery and download mode many times, right before I soft bricked it.
And sorry, no, I've tried many times, many methods and my phone is confirmed as entirely hard bricked.
SUPAR SAD, but thank you!
dont give up
JahJahLoO said:
I believe I am doing it correct, I have been entering recovery and download mode many times, right before I soft bricked it.
And sorry, no, I've tried many times, many methods and my phone is confirmed as entirely hard bricked.
SUPAR SAD, but thank you!
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you can try using adb and put the phone in dl mode.
sometimes its as easy as pull battery and wait awhile (20 min or more) and try again.
if you've exhausted all possibilities, you can use a jig to force a dl mode.
let me know
sam.balia1012 said:
you can try using adb and put the phone in dl mode.
sometimes its as easy as pull battery and wait awhile (20 min or more) and try again.
if you've exhausted all possibilities, you can use a jig to force a dl mode.
let me know
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I don't know what adb is, or how to use it; I have, however seen my friend RDP to my desktop and do something and used the term 'adb' in his attempt to code through the phone.
I've done that battery waiting period, for nearly an hour and still no result.
After doing some researching, I have found that many people have stated a USB JIG would not be applicable to a 'hard bricked' phone. I really wanted to try as it looked like the most, simple and inexpensive solution.
JahJahLoO said:
I don't know what adb is, or how to use it; I have, however seen my friend RDP to my desktop and do something and used the term 'adb' in his attempt to code through the phone.
I've done that battery waiting period, for nearly an hour and still no result.
After doing some researching, I have found that many people have stated a USB JIG would not be applicable to a 'hard bricked' phone. I really wanted to try as it looked like the most, simple and inexpensive solution.
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If you know for a fact that you bricked your s2, maybe wrong rom or kernel that u flashed by accident then.....
contact these guys.... http://brickedmyphone.com/contact-me/
good like and click thanks if you agree.
sam.balia1012 said:
If you know for a fact that you bricked your s2, maybe wrong rom or kernel that u flashed by accident then.....
contact these guys.... http://brickedmyphone.com/contact-me/
good like and click thanks if you agree.
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Lols, you're really fishing for them "Thanks"; you got it buddy. Very swift responses. :cyclops:
Anyway, I'm still searching the net for anymore possible solutions.
Thanks.
JahJahLoO said:
Lols, you're really fishing for them "Thanks"; you got it buddy. Very swift responses. :cyclops:
Anyway, I'm still searching the net for anymore possible solutions.
Thanks.
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fishing for them ???????
what the hell does that even mean? it seems that brick did hit u in the head!!!
sam.balia1012 said:
fishing for them ???????
what the hell does that even mean? it seems that brick did hit u in the head!!!
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It might as well have... :crying:

[Q] TWRP possibly ruined my phone! HELP please!

Hi Everyone
Im panicking at the moment that my phone might be bricked.
Ive been running Resurrection Remix 4.0.6 for a while now and today the new 4.0.7 was releasted. So I downloaded it and the GAPPS onto my external card like usual. I flashed the ROM fine but then realized that I hadn't printscreended the way id configured my 5 screen with all my apps. I couldn't remember how I did it so I decided to restore my nandroid backup, printscreen my screens, and then put the new ROM back on again and then configure my screens to the way I like it. But after restoring my nandroid backup, TWRP said that there was no OS installed. I then tried to restore again but it failed instantly. TWRP then said the phone doesnt seem to be rooted. do you want to install Supersu to root it? I clicked yes and then the phone turned off. I turned the phone back on and a screen came up saying do you want to install a custom ROM? I clicked yes
and now its on this black screen with a green android man on it with a caption underneath saying 'downloading'. It says in small red print at the top that it is in 'odin mode'?
But I have no idea what its downloading and from where? As surely if theres no OS then I havent put my wifi password in or anything.
Its taking ages so I dont even know for sure if its doing anything. Im pretty certain its stuck. But if I do a battery pull my phone will be bricked.
Can anyone please help me solve this issue? I would be extremely grateful.
NihangSingh said:
Hi Everyone
Im panicking at the moment that my phone might be bricked.
Ive been running Resurrection Remix 4.0.6 for a while now and today the new 4.0.7 was releasted. So I downloaded it and the GAPPS onto my external card like usual. I flashed the ROM fine but then realized that I hadn't printscreended the way id configured my 5 screen with all my apps. I couldn't remember how I did it so I decided to restore my nandroid backup, printscreen my screens, and then put the new ROM back on again and then configure my screens to the way I like it. But after restoring my nandroid backup, TWRP said that there was no OS installed. I then tried to restore again but it failed instantly. TWRP then said the phone doesnt seem to be rooted. do you want to install Supersu to root it? I clicked yes and then the phone turned off. I turned the phone back on and a screen came up saying do you want to install a custom ROM? I clicked yes
and now its on this black screen with a green android man on it with a caption underneath saying 'downloading'. It says in small red print at the top that it is in 'odin mode'?
But I have no idea what its downloading and from where? As surely if theres no OS then I havent put my wifi password in or anything.
Its taking ages so I dont even know for sure if its doing anything. Im pretty certain its stuck. But if I do a battery pull my phone will be bricked.
Can anyone please help me solve this issue? I would be extremely grateful.
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You are in "download mode" which is used for flashing with ODIN. Turn off the phone and restart it by holding power button, middle button and volume up. then try reflashing your rom in recovery.
retrorom said:
You are in "download mode" which is used for flashing with ODIN. Turn off the phone and restart it by holding power button, middle button and volume up. then try reflashing your rom in recovery.
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Thanks a bunch. That was a huge scare! Im now reflashing my ROM in recovery and it seems to be going well.
Much appreciated!
NihangSingh said:
Thanks a bunch. That was a huge scare! Im now reflashing my ROM in recovery and it seems to be going well.
Much appreciated!
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You are welcome, hope it goes well
Just a FYI: rebooting with the combination of power button, middle button and volume down goes into "download mode" where you can use the program called "odin" to flash your phone. Just so you know... google ODIN for more info if you are interested. It's usually used to properly flash a newer version of android, say when you want to upgrade from Ice cream Sandwich to Jelly Bean... etc
If it helped, just hit the thanks button
retrorom said:
You are welcome, hope it goes well
Just a FYI: rebooting with the combination of power button, middle button and volume down goes into "download mode" where you can use the program called "odin" to flash your phone. Just so you know... google ODIN for more info if you are interested. It's usually used to properly flash a newer version of android, say when you want to upgrade from Ice cream Sandwich to Jelly Bean... etc
If it helped, just hit the thanks button
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Yes, I have used ODIN previously on my phone. I should have known the difference between getting into download mode and recovery mode, stupid mistake. Thanks for clearing it up for me. Ive now flashed the new ROM I was trying to put on in the first place and everything is working great. Yep, Ill click the thanks button
And now delete this thread ! The thread title is extremely stupid.
It was your lack of knowledge which almost ruined your phone, not TWRP.
I can't believe that you even managed to flash anything onto your phone. Do you even know what TWRP is ? No need to answer...
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