Help -- Might Have Bricked Tab S 10.5 - Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As the subject line says, I'm worried I bricked my Tab S. Awhile back I flashed my tablet to IronRom. I hadn't used it in awhile and this morning I attempted to update via OTA Updater. I was able to download the update and reboot into TWRP for the install, but the tablet froze while I was wiping the cache and I had to restart. I was able to reboot into TWRP and installed the ROM (without erasing cache or data) but now I can only boot as far as the "Galaxy Tab S" screen. I can no longer boot into TWRP, though I can boot into Download Mode, but my computer won't recognize the tablet. Is there anything I can do or am I screwed?
Edit -- My computer recognizes the tablet when I open Kies, but it tries connecting for a few minutes then times out.

CarQuery8989 said:
As the subject line says, I'm worried I bricked my Tab S. Awhile back I flashed my tablet to IronRom. I hadn't used it in awhile and this morning I attempted to update via OTA Updater. I was able to download the update and reboot into TWRP for the install, but the tablet froze while I was wiping the cache and I had to restart. I was able to reboot into TWRP and installed the ROM (without erasing cache or data) but now I can only boot as far as the "Galaxy Tab S" screen. I can no longer boot into TWRP, though I can boot into Download Mode, but my computer won't recognize the tablet. Is there anything I can do or am I screwed?
Edit -- My computer recognizes the tablet when I open Kies, but it tries connecting for a few minutes then times out.
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Reflash tarp through Odin and then try to reboot recovery. I have my Tab S 10.5 LATE on that same room, no problems.

If your computer can't recognize your tablet in the Odin program, try using another USB cord.

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[Q] Problem while flashing new ROM.

Okay, this is my third time flashing a new ROM to my android device. As always I entered Clockwork mod Recovery. I wiped data and cache, done a system backup and tried to flash Rootbox 4.2 for Galaxy SIII (Yeah I know I'm stupid, don't know if it'll work just was giving it a shot because Rootbox doesn't have support for Galaxy W I guess, or I missed it) It gave me a status 7 error and aborted the installation. I tried to reboot my phone but I couldn't open it. It can go into the phones recovery mod (not CWR) but I can't do anything in there too, it says "Downloading now" and just starts downloading something which takes forever.
I seriously have no idea what to do (Yeah, a total noob here) so anyone can please help me?
Edit: Okay I found that it's called ODIN mode and when I click volume up it starts downloading something but it takes long so I should wait.
Edit 2: I realized I need Odin downloader to flash firmware but I DON'T have any connection between my phone/laptop. And there's no slot to put my sd card in and transfer files so I can't transfer anything. I tried to open it up in safe mode and normally lots of times but no luck.​
Please help me.
You have to connect via usb cabel
And install Odin on your PC.
Then flash a Stockrom in it.
Sent from my potato
But I can't because usb debugging is not enabled and I can't boot the phone. The usb just doesn't work, it does not charge my phone or get recognized by my laptop.
Nemesis Xanity said:
But I can't because usb debugging is not enabled and I can't boot the phone. The usb just doesn't work, it does not charge my phone or get recognized by my laptop.
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You have to boot the phone on download mode (volume down + home button) and connect it in your laptop. Then, use Odin's tutorial to flash stock rom.
you better install samsung USB driver first
Nemesis Xanity said:
Okay, this is my third time flashing a new ROM to my android device. As always I entered Clockwork mod Recovery. I wiped data and cache, done a system backup and tried to flash Rootbox 4.2 for Galaxy SIII (Yeah I know I'm stupid, don't know if it'll work just was giving it a shot because Rootbox doesn't have support for Galaxy W I guess, or I missed it) It gave me a status 7 error and aborted the installation. I tried to reboot my phone but I couldn't open it. It can go into the phones recovery mod (not CWR) but I can't do anything in there too, it says "Downloading now" and just starts downloading something which takes forever.
I seriously have no idea what to do (Yeah, a total noob here) so anyone can please help me?
Edit: Okay I found that it's called ODIN mode and when I click volume up it starts downloading something but it takes long so I should wait.
Edit 2: I realized I need Odin downloader to flash firmware but I DON'T have any connection between my phone/laptop. And there's no slot to put my sd card in and transfer files so I can't transfer anything. I tried to open it up in safe mode and normally lots of times but no luck.​
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this might help

Samsung S3 (tmo) soft bricked, encrypted, USB debugging off

Hi,
Summary: Was running Cyanogenmod 10.2.0 and tried to update to 10.2.1. Phone won't boot. Using CWM recovery 6.0.4.3. Factory Reset reports that it can't mount / clear /data (due to encryption?). Can get phone into CWM recovery and Download mode. Haven't been able to successfully connect to PC (ADB or Odin) even though I have samsung drivers.
I do have an unencrypted SD card in the phone so my normal way of flashing is to connect SD card to PC, download, then in CWM recovery to install ZIP from SD card.
Looking to get into any good state - Cyanogenmod 10.2.1, or 10.2.0, or heck go back to stock.
**** I think the answer might be use ODIN and flash back to stock, I see some guides but haven't been able to get ODIN to "see" my phone *****
Details
I had downloaded Cyanogenmod update to phone using "About this phone" menu and when I tried to "Install it" from that window the machine booted into recovery, immediately failed, and rebooted. The phone is encrypted (work requires this) and I discovered Cyanogenmod saves the download to encrypted phone storage and CWM recovery doesn't support encryption.
Downloaded 10.2.1 to my SD card and flashed it. (no back-up, no wiping of cache). Installed successfully, reboot asked me for my encryption password, Android optimized apps, rebooted, encryption password, then blue spinner spins forever.
From here I started my troubleshooting:
- I flashed back to 10.2.0 then flashed Gapps again, no change.
- Reading about boot.img I installed ADB and SDK Manager and tried connecting and flashing boot.img. ADB devices shows up empty. I have installed Samsung drivers.
- Researching going back to Stock points me to installed Triangle to reset my custom ROM count - but I can't boot.
Thanks in advance.
Matt
[Solved] This is for anyone who happens to read this wondering if their phone is screwed. Relax! If you can get into Download mode and Odin can see your phone, you'll be o.k.
Turns out the machine and cable you use do matter. I tried for days connecting using my MAC running Windows 7 Virtual Machine. Once I switched to my Win7 laptop and used the original Samsung cable things starting working out more smoothly.
Steps:
1) Get Odin (mine was 3.09) and run as admin. If you see an error in Korean it's because you have to unzip the entire Odin folder.
2) Get stock firmware for t-mobile. There's only 1 firmware file, I didn't need a PIT nor a specific recovery step. The t-mobile firmware includes everything I needed. Flashing failed in Odin saying Complete Write failure. This had me stumped for hours and hours. When I switched to stock cable and Win7 laptop it succeeded. I never had to check Nand erase all or repartitian (almost did in desparation though). Flash took about 10 minutes but eventually PASSED.
3) However, when it rebooted it asked for encryption key and my old one didn't work. Turns out their are more steps. This scared me.
4) Reboot into recovery (up, home, power) which gave a bunch of scary error messages. Actually those listed at the bottom in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030.
5) Factory Reset then Wipe Cache
6) Reboot
Now I'm back at stock and breathing a sigh of relief. Unclear if I'll ROM back to Cyanogenmod.
I spent hours and hours reading discussions and going down one dead end after another. I'd say it was like looking for a needle in a haystack but it was the complete opposite. It was like looking for a specific needle in a sea of needles. Every search query yielding tantilizing results and a plethora of step by step guides that ultimately didn't work. A very frustrating experience all around. Good luck to anyone who reads this.
Hi Matt
Similar thing happened to me last night. I am/was using Omni-Nightly build. I plugged it in to the charger before bed, and it rebooted, saying upon reboot - "Encryption Failed" and saying the only way to recover would be to wipe the machine and start again, it then rebooted and all I get is the Samsung boot screen.
Tried rebooting, wiping, everything, Odin, Android Toolkit, nothing works. It shows up on my Linux PCs but not accessible, but not windows at all.

SM-T210, Tab is halfway bricked

I found, after months of searching, a customized recovery (TWRP 2.8.7.0) for my Tab, and the Android SDK (ADB & Fastboot).
I backupped all of my files and things, and I wiped everything out (accidentally).
Now, my Tab can access Recovery, but when I try to copy a ROM into it's internal storage, after some minutes it exits automatically (I turned the Screen Timeout off), failing the copy operation and not giving any option to restart it at a later time (dumb Windows), and no ROM that I have seen so far is small enough (100-200MB) to copy before the Recovery auto-closes. My USB picks it up (but only for accessing through Windows - Fastboot and ADB don't pick it up).
My Android version is 4.1.2, and I haven't tried many methods apart from Kies (does not detect anytime) and the ones descripted here. The Tab can't charge, and I have 86% battery. I believe that the Samsung firmware is too big for the auto-exit cycle.
However, it can access Download Mode but the USB nor the computer respond, and ADB & Fastboot either.
When I start my Tab up, it gets stuck in the bootloader screen, and Odin (v3.09) shows 1 "Added!!!" message, but I can't do anything with the PC/Tab connection.
So my Tab is stuck until I can find a 100-200MB rom that can be copied without the Recovery shutting down automatically.
Can anyone help me out?
Fixed, installed Odin 3.07 and it somehow made the recovery not close itself, so I flashed RocketTab 3.0!

Galaxy Note II (GT-N7100) Resuscitation

Its been a long time since I booted my Galaxy Note-II (GT-N7100) as I use an iPhone and Nexus 5 as my daily drivers.
The phone wont boot past the Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 logo. I am able to access the recovery and download mode as well, and I have flashed the latest stock rom from Sammobile using the Odin. The flashing was successful. however the phone doesn't boot past the logo. Also the phone will not power up unless connected to a PC, it wont power up even when connected to a charger and will immediately shut down when the USB cable is disconnected from the PC. I flashed TWRP 3.0.2 Custom Recovery using the Odin and tried installing CM 13 based Rom through the mem card, however the log reads patching image unconditionally and also that "Failed to mount /system" (invalid argument). The phone when restarted into recovery can no longer mount the /system partition. However on flashing the stock rom using Odin, the /system partition is available for mounting. The recovery log also shows MTP enabled, but my PC doesn't detect the phone when in recovery, it only detects the phone in Download mode. I have the Samsung drivers installed. Since the phone is not being detected in recovery I am unable to use the adb.
I am out of ideas and request your suggestions other than approaching a service centre.
If I can somehow access the phone via ADB, I might be able to check the memory partitions for corrupt units, and possibly create a custom PIT file to repartition and suit the available memory units.
Try this: open Odin, uncheck everything except f.reset time. Connect phone and flash stock ROM. When you see the word reset in the status window, remove USB cable, remove battery for a few seconds, replace battery, immediately boot the phone into recovery mode, factory wipe, and boot the phone.
Could the battery be defective or dead?
audit13 said:
Try this: open Odin, uncheck everything except f.reset time. Connect phone and flash stock ROM. When you see the word reset in the status window, remove USB cable, remove battery for a few seconds, replace battery, immediately boot the phone into recovery mode, factory wipe, and boot the phone.
Could the battery be defective or dead?
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Thanks a lot.
Tried your method and finally the phone has booted into the OS.
Had to replace the battery with another spare one in the process.
However the phone is still not being detected by the PC unless it's in Fastboot/ Download mode.
When connected to a computer, does anything appear on the phone screen? If you're using Windows, nothing new appears in device manager?
sorry to jump in this thread but i am having a similar problem
my completely stock tmobile note 2 is stuck on the samsung logo
i have never flashed it or done anything to it
my phone was working really slow, freezing up and battery draining fast
so i did a hard reset and it fixed the problem of running slow and freezing up for a week or so but battery drained fast
so i bought a replacement battery from ebay and installed it and the next day i restarted my phone and it froze on the samsung logo
i tried turning it off and on and still the same thing
any suggestions or should i start a new thread?
fyi i am a noob

Stuck on TWRP Recovery mode (LG G3 d855)

So after accidently wiping everything I had on both SD and Internal memory trying to make a custom rom work, I was stuck with a phone that only has TWRP on it, basically. Now after I've been through this guide TO THE LETTER: http://www.droidviews.com/install-stock-android-marshmallow-lg-g3-d855-using-twrp-recovery/ I can see it installed an OS but I cant seem to get my phone to load it! SO then I tried entering recovery mode and getting back to default, it didn't change anything, so I tried installing Zoe rom (https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/development/zoe-rom-v1-0-mm-6-0-stock-v30a-d855-t3402087) and It STILL ONLY LOADS TWRP even though the installation seemed to be successful!
So what do I need to do? Just flat out delete TWRP? or what? Pleas advise as I'm desperate. If needs be, redirect me to how to just completely reinstall everything from scratch to 6.0 or 7.0 (preferably). I was on 4.x.x for ages and I just wanted to update, instead destroyed my phone. Sigh.
UPDATE: Another thing I've tried is to flash it with KDZ file from the PC. I can see the phone, I can transfer files to it, but windows DOES NOT recognize in the device manage so when I tried to use the flash tool, after clicking "Start" it pops a new window which gets to 60% and then stops saying the phone is not connected to the pc.
Malkishua said:
So after accidently wiping everything I had on both SD and Internal memory trying to make a custom rom work, I was stuck with a phone that only has TWRP on it, basically. Now after I've been through this guide TO THE LETTER: http://www.droidviews.com/install-stock-android-marshmallow-lg-g3-d855-using-twrp-recovery/ I can see it installed an OS but I cant seem to get my phone to load it! SO then I tried entering recovery mode and getting back to default, it didn't change anything, so I tried installing Zoe rom (https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/development/zoe-rom-v1-0-mm-6-0-stock-v30a-d855-t3402087) and It STILL ONLY LOADS TWRP even though the installation seemed to be successful!
So what do I need to do? Just flat out delete TWRP? or what? Pleas advise as I'm desperate. If needs be, redirect me to how to just completely reinstall everything from scratch to 6.0 or 7.0 (preferably). I was on 4.x.x for ages and I just wanted to update, instead destroyed my phone. Sigh.
UPDATE: Another thing I've tried is to flash it with KDZ file from the PC. I can see the phone, I can transfer files to it, but windows DOES NOT recognize in the device manage so when I tried to use the flash tool, after clicking "Start" it pops a new window which gets to 60% and then stops saying the phone is not connected to the pc.
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I just got over something like this this morning. First, you need to ensure you have the LG Universal drivers installed for your phone. Get them here.
Next, reboot your machine.
After this, I made sure the PC recognized all 3 modes of my phone, TWRP mode (boot to TWRP, connect), Download Mode (boot to download mode with cable) and, at least in my case, the flashing lights mode (shows up as QHUD Bulk or something).
After that, I ran the KDZ restore program successfully.
Good luck and let me know how it goes.

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