My phone was already rooted but I wanted to install clockworkmod so I ran ran Noob's 1 click root and I booted into clockworkmod recovery. Now, when ever I click the home button to make a selection, it just goes to black and nothing happens untill I click the back button. I have taken the battery out and it still reboots into recovery. I have a few important numbers that I have not added as contacts yet that I would like to get to so a restore is not my first option. Does anyone have any tips?
Would flashing a modem possibly, get it out of being stuck rebooting into Recovery mode? I can boot into download mode. Would a modem flash cause any data loss?
lehaman310 said:
when ever I click the home button to make a selection, it just goes to black and nothing happens untill I click the back button.
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When using clockwork, you need to use the camera button to make selections.
Select reboot phone with the home key, the other keys will cause a blank screen until you press another one but you never really left recovery.
Just re-read your post, my bad. If you are in clockwork press the camera button when reboot is highlighted...
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Now is sitting in a screen with a phone and a computer icon. Do I have to do a full restore now?
lehaman310 said:
Now is sitting in a screen with a phone and a computer icon. Do I have to do a full restore now?
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Were you messing with Odin too? Because that sounds like what happens when you have an unsuccessful flash with Odin.
Pull the battery to reboot your phone and then if it goes back to that again, you're most likely course of action will be to reflash your phone with Odin, which will return it to factory defaults unless you have some sort of backup through clockwork, or TiB, etc.
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Were you messing with Odin too? Because that sounds like what happens when you have an unsuccessful flash with Odin.
Pull the battery to reboot your phone and then if it goes back to that again, you're most likely course of action will be to reflash your phone with Odin, which will return it to factory defaults unless you have some sort of backup through clockwork, or TiB, etc.
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Yeah I was medding with odin since the camera button wasn't working either. I am now back to stock
Im stuck in clockworkMod recovery and cannot get into the download mode so I can restore my phone with Odin.
battery is pulled, and put back in.
the 1 button is pushed and the power button is pushed.
No download mode, but the CWM recovery page.
help?
btgoodlin said:
Im stuck in clockworkMod recovery and cannot get into the download mode so I can restore my phone with Odin.
battery is pulled, and put back in.
the 1 button is pushed and the power button is pushed.
No download mode, but the CWM recovery page.
help?
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I know this may sound trivial, but this (among other things!!) happened to me yesterday.
Pull the battery again and re-try holding down the 1 key first - making sure it is competely pressed down and it is the ONLY key pressed by your finger (I have big fingers - and then press the power key.
This worked for me. And as a side note, if you are getting stuck at the Clockwork recovery screen no matter what you do - you will most likely have to Odin back to a Full Stock .tar (about 290MB +/-) file and start again.
Hope this helps!
Edit: Make sure your phone is NOT connected to your charger or computer when you put the battery back in. I found out yesterday that having the phone connected either way would automatically cause the phone to power back up and into the same screen I was stuck at.
your using the wrong button
You have to use enter on your keyboard to select a function
menu home and back only work on the original android recovery mode
I thought I had messed something up too. The same thing happened to me but you have to use the power button to go back, or you can use the keyboard to navigate.
Sounds like the 1st key is not being pressed cleanly. However, I had a similar issue when trying to flash CM6 ROM and it's required ext4 and kernal. I just Odin'ed back to stock dk28 froyo and restored a nandroid backup.
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I'm able to get into download mode finally. Weird.
I'm just getting an Odin error now
<ID:0/007> Added!!
<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..
<ID:0/007> Can't open the specified file. (Line: 1224)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I'll keep trying on different USB ports, but I'm not sure what file that error is coming from.
If you are using the new dk28 stock rom change the extension from md5 to .Tar tidings can't using it for some reason
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btgoodlin said:
I'm able to get into download mode finally. Weird.
I'm just getting an Odin error now
<ID:0/007> Added!!
<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..
<ID:0/007> Can't open the specified file. (Line: 1224)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I'll keep trying on different USB ports, but I'm not sure what file that error is coming from.
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"Can't open the specified file" sounds like your image file is bad. Try downloading it again. I've had all kinds of issues downloading from some of these file hosting sites.
The being stuck in recovery issue happens to me about every other time I'm in there. Turn out system was still mounted. Went into one of the menus, unmounted, reboot. fixes it every time for me.
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kcarpenter said:
the being stuck in recovery issue happens to me about every other time i'm in there. Turn out system was still mounted. Went into one of the menus, unmounted, reboot. Fixes it every time for me.
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yoou my friend are a god!!
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So I tried Odin and was going back to stock. Odin was going for over an hour and no progress was being shown. So what I read is to restart the process. So I took out the battery and went to get into Download Mode again. So my guess is the something was actually still writing even after an hour...or Odin wrote something bad at the beginning and then died.
Well now my phone only goes to the Screen showing a Phone --- ! ---- Computer. I have tried many tricks listed on this site. Take out the battery, hookup the USB, hold down up and down volume, and then put the battery back in...nothing. Tried many things like this.
ADB doesn't see the device.
Any thoughts?
Umbricking
If you can get into samsung recovery try wiping user data.
AaronMFeld said:
If you can get into samsung recovery try wiping user data.
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For the Vibrant is that up+down+power? I have tried so many combos.
Thanks.
Take Out The USB Cord
Hold The Volume Up And Down Buttons
Plug In USB While Holding The Buttons
If You See Download Mode Again
Restart ODIN
Erickomen27 said:
Take Out The USB Cord
Hold The Volume Up And Down Buttons
Plug In USB While Holding The Buttons
If You See Download Mode Again
Restart ODIN
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Still have the Phone --!-- PC image only. Comes right up immediately.
Try
1) pull the battery
2) plug in micro usb
3) hold down both vol buttons
4) pop in battery
I am having the exact same problem. When I tried to odin back to stock, it got stuck on cache.rfs. So i took out the battery, and get back into download mode, , but odin didn't see the phone after I plug the USB back in. So i restart odin, and it assign a com port. When I click start after specifying the pit and tar file. It would just get stuck at cache.rfs again.
I am not able to get into recovery, and I just see the <computer ! phone>. or I can get into download mode with the key combinations. but odin wouldn't flash, and i can't boot regularly. Please help.
This is happened to me as well. I was trying for hours to get ODIN to flash the tar file but it would either freeze or fail. Eventually I tried another computer and started from scratch by downloading the USB Drivers, ODIN, the PIT and TAR file again. In my case it turned out to be my computer, using another computer successfully flashed teh stock rom and later the manual ota update.
Is Your Vibrant Hardware Locked?
Sounds Like it, If It Is, Your Screwed..Sorry
nvm, i finally got it to flashed back to stock. it wouldn't work until I finally found the odin v1.52. it flashed as soon as I use that version of odin. btw..I don't think mine is hardware locked, since i am normally able to get into recovery or download mode by using the key combination. Thanks
I was following the youtube video when the root failed. Now the device only shows the "Downloading" screen.
Edit: when rebooted the device shows: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
some help please.
held VOL DOWN + HOME + POWER and get a "Warning !!
A custom OS can cause critical problems in phone and installed applications.
If you want to download up key.
Otherwise ,press the volume down key to cancel.
Volume UP: continue
Volume Down : Cancel (restart phone)
I hit Volume UP to continue an it takes me to the screen shown in the photos.
nate600 said:
I was following the youtube video when the root failed. Now the device only shows the "Downloading" screen.
some help please.
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So after you reboot it again is just immediately goes back to download mode on its own?
nate600 said:
I was following the youtube video when the root failed. Now the device only shows the "Downloading" screen.
some help please.
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Obviously you can't boot the phone, but does the bootloader work? Turn phone off... then hold VOL DOWN + HOME + POWER until you see Samsung logo then let go. If you have stock bootloader there should be an option to factory reset.
I believe the screen you're looking at in your pictures is specifically for receiving firmware, not the boot.
If everything I just said sounds retarded, I apologize. I iz noob.
HeyItsRyan said:
Obviously you can't boot the phone, but does the bootloader work? Turn phone off... then hold VOL DOWN + HOME + POWER until you see Samsung logo then let go. If you have stock bootloader there should be an option to factory reset.
I believe the screen you're looking at in your pictures is specifically for receiving firmware, not the boot.
If everything I just said sounds retarded, I apologize. I iz noob.
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I am guessing but I don't think he has restarted after the failure. The screenshot he posted is of download mode, which you only need VDown + Power by the way makes it a little easier to get to.
crawrj said:
I am guessing but I don't think he has restarted after the failure. The screenshot he posted is of download mode, which you only need VDown + Power by the way makes it a little easier to get to.
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I thought "download mode" and "bootloader" were two difference things... you get download mode by doing VOL DOWN + POWER so the phone can be flashed directly. And you do VOL DOWN + HOME + POWER to start recovery. Am I wrong?
HeyItsRyan said:
I thought "download mode" and "bootloader" were two difference things... you get download mode by doing VOL DOWN + POWER so the phone can be flashed directly. And you do VOL DOWN + HOME + POWER to start recovery. Am I wrong?
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Recovery is VUp + Power. For each one you can hold home and it will work but it isn't necessary. In fact you only need power if it is off. If the phone is rebooting or already powering up you just need to hold VUp or VDown.
crawrj said:
Recovery is VUp + Power. For each one you can hold home and it will work but it isn't necessary. In fact you only need power if it is off. If the phone is rebooting or already powering up you just need to hold VUp or VDown.
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anyway to just factory reset this thing ?
I powered off the device by removing the battery.
nate600 said:
anyway to just factory reset this thing ?
I powered off the device by removing the battery.
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We need more info. So when you power the phone on it just goes right to download mode by itself? If you can get into recovery VUp+Power you can do a factory reset. I don't think that will help but it might. If you are stuck in download mode, the phone won't boot up or factory reset doesn't work Odin a stock tar of the version you were on, MDC, MDL or MF9.
All you have to do to get to download mode is press volume down recovery is volume up, no power.
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If you can get to either of those you are not bricked. Bricked means your phone does nothing at all, no recovery, download mode and won't boot to a ROM hence the word bricked, your phone is inoperable and is a brick.
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GiantJay said:
All you have to do to get to download mode is press volume down recovery is volume up, no power.
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You need power if the phone is off. You don't have to hold them at the same time but if the phone is off you need VDown + Power or VUp + Power.
crawrj said:
You need power if the phone is off. You don't have to hold them at the same time but if the phone is off you need VDown + Power or VUp + Power.
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You are correct. I usually get to those when restarting, but ya if the phone is off you have to power it on. Lol. My bad.
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removed the battery. hit only the power button and get: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
Then I tried a Hard reset: removed the battery for 15 sec. reinserted held the Vol UP, Home and power till it vibrated. Then kept holding the vol up and home. I get the same message: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
@crawrj would this work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJSv9MrVAg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I tried the How to Unroot and Unbrick the Samsung Galaxy S4. No luck, see photo.
I am noticing on the phone screen that In Grey Text... WRITE PROTECTION : Enabled Is this part of my issue?
Photo of upper left corner of screen.
GiantJay said:
@crawrj would this work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJSv9MrVAg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Yeah that should have worked.
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nate600 said:
Photo of upper left corner of screen.
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Write protection is normal for our phone. It shouldn't matter but download this version of Odin and try again. http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1168421&d=1341114315
Also make sure the MD5 on the tar you have matches to confirm that it isn't corrupt.
If it still doesn't work try installing kies on the computer and see if you can do the recover firmware or whatever it is called.
Odin 3 currently sits at
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> aboot.mbn
How long should it sit there ?
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Odin 3 currently sits at
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> aboot.mbn
How long should it sit there ?
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Should only sit there for a few seconds. Try kies. What file were you using to try and root?
I got the file from http://qbking77.com/development/how-to-unroot-and-unbrick-the-samsung-galaxy-s4/
Sprint Galaxy S4 SPH-L720 VPUAMDC (Android 4.2.2) – Download
Are you using the usb cable that came with your phone, if not do so. Also, try a different usb port.
Hey guys I am kind of at a loss here. I bricked my phone by using ROM installer I tried installing twrp through it and then through that it I rebooted. (I know wasn't a smart thing to do, I realize that now). Now every time I boot up my S4 it keeps going into Download mode (Down Volume + Home Button + Power Button). No matter what I do (Ex. Reboot with power button, Reboot with power button and then try to go into recovery mode, pulling the battery out) it keeps going into download mode. Now I do realize when it first happened I should've cancelled going into Download Mode instead of continuing but I did continue. I tried using Odin to unroot/unbrick but it would fail every time at <ID:0/004> FAIL! (Auth). Now I figured out that a few min ago that the tar file I was using was for UCUAMDB but can someone point me in the right direction in what to do please.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
Nannos1412 said:
Hey guys I am kind of at a loss here. I bricked my phone by using ROM installer I tried installing twrp through it and then through that it I rebooted. (I know wasn't a smart thing to do, I realize that now). Now every time I boot up my S4 it keeps going into Download mode (Down Volume + Home Button + Power Button). No matter what I do (Ex. Reboot with power button, Reboot with power button and then try to go into recovery mode, pulling the battery out) it keeps going into download mode. Now I do realize when it first happened I should've cancelled going into Download Mode instead of continuing but I did continue. I tried using Odin to unroot/unbrick but it would fail every time at <ID:0/004> FAIL! (Auth). Now I figured out that a few min ago that the tar file I was using was for UCUAMDB but can someone point me in the right direction in what to do please.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
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Flash the MF3 ODIN file and restore your phone to factory MF3. There is a thread (or two) about this in the General and Q & A sections. You should be able to find them just by looking at the first page in each section. Read the threads and follow the directions. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2558869
I had an error about verifying the file signature and found a fix buried in a thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943415&page=5&nocache=1
It seems the phone needs to reboot into recovery mode instead of manually entering (you can't hold both volume buttons and power, for some reason it is different i.e. the camera button is the select button instead of menu). I had to do what Speardroid notes below to get update.zip to go with no error.
For those who have been hanging on the edge of their seats waiting to see if my struggles ended....they haven't totally...but I have finally managed some success.
it seems to be totally a hit or miss thing...but I have been able to get into CWR, red text and all, twice....enough to do a backup of my ROM and flash the DL17 clean ROM along with the two updates (email and social)
The only way I've been able to get into CWR....is to Odin the .pit and .tar file from this thread over and over again...until for some reason after it says reset in Odin my phone resets directly into manual recovery mode. This has happened twice, and both times I had to use the soft key to apply update.zip and both times it got me into CWR.
Manual rebooting with vol up and down takes me to the original recovery mode where the camera button works and flashing update.zip doesn't.
Even doing the Odin technique, when it doesn't fail, typically just restarts my phone into Android...except for two times.
So basically, I hope I don't need to flash anymore .zip files because getting back into CWR is like playing a game of roulette.....although strangely, I've never actually done that.
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Unfortunately I have deleted the system of my S4 i9505 from within TWRP :crying:
After having some fun with CyanogenMod I decided to try out the PAC rom. Following the installation instructions on their mod page I wiped the internal data of my phone but what as I was sliding the confirmation I realised that 'system' was checked. Too late
I have read through countless threads on this sight and others but have not had any success.
I have located the stock recovery image for my device.
When my device is first switched on I can still hit volume down + power button, and then volume up to enter the downloading mode (but if I don't the booting begins to loop at the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and goes no further). Odin still recognises my phone and allows me to flash roms but when it does the auto re-boot at the end I don't have a system and it gets stuck on the booting at the Galaxy S4 logo.
Several threads have suggested that I Fastboot, I'm not sure if this is even an option with the S4 or not but please let me know if it you're sure that it is. I have been unsuccessful with my Fastboot attempts so far but if I just need to persevere with it then I can.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated :fingers-crossed:
In TWRP. Setting and Enable MD5 verification of backup files. (It maybe help.) Or Skip MD5 generation of backup.
And why you don´t flash stock ROM via Odin??
It's really easy.
Just reflash TWRP true Odin. Then flash the rom you want. That's all you need to do.
verny94 said:
In TWRP. Setting and Enable MD5 verification of backup files. (It maybe help.) Or Skip MD5 generation of backup.
And why you don´t flash stock ROM via Odin??
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I'm not sure what the first part of your post means but I am not even able to access TWRP, that is the problem.
I have flashed the stock ROM via Odin. After I flash the ROM it does the normal re-boot. But I my phone loops on the splash screen without every actually re-booting properly.
Lennyz1988 said:
It's really easy.
Just reflash TWRP true Odin. Then flash the rom you want. That's all you need to do.
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I have reflashed it but as described above my phone fails to reboot after the flash.
I might be missing something here. I'm not sure how to get into recovery mode after flashing the ROM. Immediately as the device begins to re-boot I've tried holding power button + volume up + home button but the screen goes black and when I let go of the buttons the phone just auto boots itself.
EDIT: My phone automatically attempts to boot whenever it is connected to USB.
Is it possible to flash an entire OS in a ROM rather than just altering the recovery??
1. Flash TWRP recovery true Odin. Make sure Auto-reboot is UNCHECKED. After it finished flashing, unplug it, reboot and try to get to recovery now.
Lennyz1988 said:
1. Flash TWRP recovery true Odin. Make sure Auto-reboot is UNCHECKED. After it finished flashing, unplug it, reboot and try to get to recovery now.
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I have done that again (now having turned off the Auto-reboot (thanks btw). I can get Odin to come up with a big green PASS for flashing TWRP. Now when I try to boot into recovery however the phone vibrates and the flash screen comes up but then it powers down again. I'm just holding power button + volume up + home button to attempt getting into recovery but it isn't working. Do I need to try and flash another ROM?
EDIT: SUCCESS!!!! I made it to recovery (apparently this post was premature). It looks like failing to un-check the auto-reboot in ODIN was the problem. Thanks a lot man, that was a massive help. From recovery I was able to flash my backup ROM.
Ethereal95 said:
I have done that again (now having turned off the Auto-reboot (thanks btw). I can get Odin to come up with a big green PASS for flashing TWRP. Now when I try to boot into recovery however the phone vibrates and the flash screen comes up but then it powers down again. I'm just holding power button + volume up + home button to attempt getting into recovery but it isn't working. Do I need to try and flash another ROM?
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No a rom has nothing to do with the recovery not working. Are you holding the buttons long enough? Just try to hold them for like 30 seconds even if it reboots 3 times.
Lennyz1988 said:
No a rom has nothing to do with the recovery not working. Are you holding the buttons long enough? Just try to hold them for like 30 seconds even if it reboots 3 times.
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Guess I didn't edit my post as quickly as I thought I had, but it's all working now, thanks for the help.
Ethereal95 said:
Guess I didn't edit my post as quickly as I thought I had, but it's all working now, thanks for the help.
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Good to hear