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hi, my first post here.
I just flashed my g3 with kyrillos ex V3.3 according to instruction including parting sd card, and everything was perfect. didnt get the chnce to thank for the rom (didn't get to use it for more than 5 min')
I tryed to folow a diferent tutorial that sould eneble fixing the text oriantation so I have Hebrew corect from right to left.
During the process, just after booting to recovery, I accidentaly pressed the update.zip option and the phone got stuck in the first "gt-i5800" screen and loops to the boot sound but the screen doen't chang.
I have recovery mode and download mode, I reflashed again, but the phone keeps getting stuck in the same place.
Help?
Try to reflash! Use samfirmware's JPF rom, do data and cache wipe with XXJPF in recovery mode. XXJPF rom helped me a lot. When recovery and downloading working, you don't have to panic!
realismo said:
Try to reflash! Use samfirmware's JPF rom, do data and cache wipe with XXJPF in recovery mode. XXJPF rom helped me a lot. When recovery and downloading working, you don't have to panic!
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Agreed. Try wiping data/cache, then flash an old firmware, then reflash Kyrillos'.
If recovery/download are working that means your boot partition is still in tact. Which means your phone isn't bricked
you are right!
good!
I got the phone back.
Reflashing.
thanks again
It was a Soft brick though no bad done!
barqers said:
Agreed. Try wiping data/cache, then flash an old firmware, then reflash Kyrillos'.
If recovery/download are working that means your boot partition is still in tact. Which means your phone isn't bricked
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So what does the above mean?? :| What do I do? How do i go into recovery and facctory reset?
Gurushankar said:
So what does the above mean?? :| What do I do? How do i go into recovery and facctory reset?
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You do that by reading a bit
As the title says i can't flash any boot images
expect swiftdroids boot .img
Everytime i go onto recovery the swiftdroid boot image
comes up for about 1 sec and then the recovery menu
comes up!!!
I also tried flashing different CWMs but the same!!
My normal boot image does come up if i don't go to
recovery!! (It is the android boot image)
Cause of this i can't flash any type of boot .img
expect the swiftdroid's boot .img
Anyone know how i can get rid of this??
I am using SuperFast Froyo so its got nothing to do
with swiftdroid!!
I did go to data/local/
but nothings there so i went into data/local/tmp
and nothings there too. (used root explorer)
Any help will be appreciated!!
Thank you!!
androidboss7 said:
As the title says i can't flash any boot images
expect swiftdroids boot .img
Everytime i go onto recovery the swiftdroid boot image
comes up for about 1 sec and then the recovery menu
comes up!!!
My normal boot image does come up if i don't go to
recovery!! (It is the android boot image)
Cause of this i can't flash any type of boot .img
expect the swiftdroid's boot .img
Anyone know how i can get rid of this??
I also tried flashing different CWMs but all the same results!!!
I am using SuperFast Froyo so its got nothing to do
with swiftdroid!!
I did go to data/local/
but nothings there so i went into data/local/tmp
and nothings there too. (used root explorer)
Any help will be appreciated!!
Thank you!!
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I'm guessing you've already done a wipe & flash lol.
What do you mean by "...i can't flash any boot images...". Won't you be able to do that via fastboot or recovery? On my device with Swiftdroid, when I enter recovery it also comes up with the Swiftdroid logo and then quickly to recovery (when I decide to boot to recovery). Are you trying to say that the Swiftdroid logo comes with other ROMs instead of Swiftdroid itself?
jhonnyx1000 said:
I'm guessing you've already done a wipe & flash lol.
What do you mean by "...i can't flash any boot images...". Won't you be able to do that via fastboot or recovery? On my device with Swiftdroid, when I enter recovery it also comes up with the Swiftdroid logo and then quickly to recovery (when I decide to boot to recovery). Are you trying to say that the Swiftdroid logo comes with other ROMs instead of Swiftdroid itself?
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Yes I did try wiping everything!
I use SuperFast Froyo!!
And still swiftdroids boot image
Comes up when i boot into recovery!!!
And I mean i can't flash via
Recovery!!
But I can with fastboot!
But I want to flash with recovery
Cause some roms can only
flashes with recovery
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androidboss7 said:
Yes I did try wiping everything!
I use SuperFast Froyo!!
And still swiftdroids boot image
Comes up when i boot into recovery!!!
And I mean i can't flash via
Recovery!!
But I can with fastboot!
But I want to flash with recovery
Cause some roms can only
flashes with recovery
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It could be a problem with the recovery image. Do you get the Swiftdroid logo when booting normally?
jhonnyx1000 said:
It could be a problem with the recovery image. Do you get the Swiftdroid logo when booting normally?
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No!!
That's the weird thing!!
I can only flash updates zips
But it still says error flashing boot
Image!!!
But I can't flash any boot image
Expect the swiftdroids!!
Do u know why this happens??
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androidboss7 said:
No!!
That's the weird thing!!
I can only flash updates zips
But it still says error flashing boot
Image!!!
But I can't flash any boot image
Expect the swiftdroids!!
Do u know why this happens??
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Maybe the other ROMs take more space than Swiftdroid's boot image. How big are the other's ROMs' boot images compard to Swiftdroid boot images?
jhonnyx1000 said:
Maybe the other ROMs take more space than Swiftdroid's boot image. How big are the other's ROMs' boot images compard to Swiftdroid boot images?
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Don't know!!
But I think if I delete that boot img
Of the swiftdroids one it might
Solve the problem!!
Edit: ok right now I reflashed
recovery with boot animation disabled!!
And the swiftdroid didn't come up!!
then i tried with boot animation abled
and it still didn't come up!! YAA
But to confirm i am gonna flash a new new rom
to see if it has the same problem!!
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Just waiting for the Froyo Optimum!!
Edit: No i still can't flash any boot img's!!!
anyone know how i can restart my whole phone
so its got nothing on it???
or perhaps an answer to this problem???
Nupe still can't flash boot .img
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Anyone ?????
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By any chance do you have ClockworkMod Recovery on your phone???
Because with this one you can try to access it and over there Wipe Dalvik Cache, do a wipe data/factory reset, and if this doesn't works to wipe cache partition.
After doing this I will look for a restore image over the web, there are tons of them, Install one of them with the ClockworkMod Recovery, and just after the first boot access once again the Recovery and do a wipe data/factory reset. I think this way you will have a phone with nothing on it just a new OS.
If you need a guide for installing ClockworkMod this is the first one I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224747
And thanks to effortless. for this awesome guide.
Hope it works...
suzukah said:
By any chance do you have ClockworkMod Recovery on your phone???
Because with this one you can try to access it and over there Wipe Dalvik Cache, do a wipe data/factory reset, and if this doesn't works to wipe cache partition.
After doing this I will look for a restore image over the web, there are tons of them, Install one of them with the ClockworkMod Recovery, and just after the first boot access once again the Recovery and do a wipe data/factory reset. I think this way you will have a phone with nothing on it just a new OS.
If you need a guide for installing ClockworkMod this is the first one I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224747
And thanks to effortless. for this awesome guide.
Hope it works...
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Yes i do have clockwordmod and yes
i did try factory reset through clockwordmod
but still the same problem...
And did you tried the rest of the things I told you?? To wipe the Dalvic cache and to use another restore image??
suzukah said:
And did you tried the rest of the things I told you?? To wipe the Dalvic cache and to use another restore image??
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Yup
I tried basically everything ..
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I formatted System, cache and data and now when i boot my S4 is stuck at GT-i9505 boot screen, I can get it in download mode, does anyone have a fix?
Thank you.
WilliamMRees said:
I formatted System, cache and data and now when i boot my S4 is stuck at GT-i9505 boot screen, I can get it in download mode, does anyone have a fix?
Thank you.
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sure it will stuck, there is no os. flash stock firmware, see my sig.
samersh72 said:
sure it will stuck, there is no os. flash stock firmware, see my sig.
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Okay, thanks dude, is this the only way? I can get into CWM recovery mode?
WilliamMRees said:
Okay, thanks dude, is this the only way? I can get into CWM recovery mode?
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flash a custom Rom with recovery if u want
Blackwolf10 said:
flash a custom Rom with recovery if u want
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I'm kinda new to this, how would I go about that?
Also, I formatted the system, cache and data, I'm assuming this is why this has happened, I was doing that because I was installing Cyanogenmod following this method 'http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271595) how would I do that withopuot making the same mistake I made here?
Thanks guys!
WilliamMRees said:
I'm kinda new to this, how would I go about that?
Also, I formatted the system, cache and data, I'm assuming this is why this has happened, I was doing that because I was installing Cyanogenmod following this method 'http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271595) how would I do that withopuot making the same mistake I made here?
Thanks guys!
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you are supposed to flash the Rom after formating those stuff not before
Blackwolf10 said:
you are supposed to flash the Rom after formating those stuff not before
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I think i followed the steps correctly, I flashed CWM and did a backup, then formatted the stuff, then the phone would not reboot to unzip cyanogen.
WilliamMRees said:
I think i followed the steps correctly, I flashed CWM and did a backup, then formatted the stuff, then the phone would not reboot to unzip cyanogen.
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you don't need to reboot
you need to flash it right after those formating
and the file needs to stay as a zip to be flashable so what did u mean by unziping it
also after you flash it won't hurt to wipe data/factory reset and also wipe cache
Blackwolf10 said:
you don't need to reboot
you need to flash it right after those formating
and the file needs to stay as a zip to be flashable so what did u mean by unziping it
also after you flash it won't hurt to wipe data/factory reset and also wipe cache
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Ahhhhhh, silly me, I think I understand now! Thanks for the help dude!
I was trying to flash a new rom, when I went to recovery and I was wiping everything... I wiped cache, dalvik, data and when I was wiping system it rebooted and all it does now is bootloop to twrp... I mean it stays on the twrp screen, the very first screen on twrp before it gets to menus, and restarts into recovery again and freezes and restarts again... and again... I was able to get to the download mode.. I think the problem is with twrp, should I flash new twrp from there or what do u all suggest... help please
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metallized said:
I was trying to flash a new rom, when I went to recovery and I was wiping everything... I wiped cache, dalvik, data and when I was wiping system it rebooted and all it does now is bootloop to twrp... I mean it stays on the twrp screen, the very first screen on twrp before it gets to menus, and restarts into recovery again and freezes and restarts again... and again... I was able to get to the download mode.. I think the problem is with twrp, should I flash new twrp from there or what do u all suggest... help please
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If you're wiping the system, what you're really doing is removing android, and the bootloader, if im not wrong. Did you wipe data, cache, dalvik, system and then flash the rom? Or how was the order. If it was as I said there should be no problem, try reflashing the rom.
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If you're wiping the system, what you're really doing is removing android, and the bootloader, if im not wrong. Did you wipe data, cache, dalvik, system and then flash the rom? Or how was the order. If it was as I said there should be no problem, try reflashing the rom.
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Wiping system doesnot do anything wrong.... plus I can not get into recovery to flash a rom... my problem is recovery...
Thanks anyway
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metallized said:
Wiping system doesnot do anything wrong.... plus I can not get into recovery to flash a rom... my problem is recovery...
Thanks anyway
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Flash a new TWRP from the Bootloader, reboot into TWRP, sideload a ROM. You DID erase /system, like he was trying to tell you, in all likelihood. Doing so erases the entire Android OS.
dibblebill said:
Flash a new TWRP from the Bootloader, reboot into TWRP, sideload a ROM. You DID erase /system, like he was trying to tell you, in all likelihood. Doing so erases the entire Android OS.
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All I can get on rite now is a downloading mode... thats not bootloader rite.... it goes to that mode regardless of what keys combinations I press...
And all these times I have been wiping system... n thats what I do when I flash a new rom on my galaxy s4 and I have flashed many roms wiping system and it never did that.... but I guess I should stop wiping system from now then...
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metallized said:
All I can get on rite now is a downloading mode... thats not bootloader rite.... it goes to that mode regardless of what keys combinations I press...
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Turn it COMPLETELY off. Hold vol up/down (BOTH), and power until it shows a "Restart"/"Restart BootLoader"/etc. That's where you can fastboot flash TWRP
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Turn it COMPLETELY off. Hold vol up/down (BOTH), and power until it shows a "Restart"/"Restart BootLoader"/etc. That's where you can fastboot flash TWRP
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i tried fastboot flashing recovery and rebooted, now it wont turn on at all.... nothing at all... whats wrong ????
metallized said:
i tried fastboot flashing recovery and rebooted, now it wont turn on at all.... nothing at all... whats wrong ????
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Will it get into the bootloader by pressing theb utton combinations?
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Will it get into the bootloader by pressing theb utton combinations?
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Something happened to the recovery that I can not figure out.. but after a couple of tries, flashing recovery thru fastboot, its working now.... and I still dont think its coz I wiped system.... I have qlways done that.... even when I update the same custon rom to a new update, I always wipe cache, dalvik, and system.... but no data and ofcourse wipe all when flashing a new rom.... when recovery worked I wiped system again and flashed a new rom and did that a couple of times... nothing wrong anymore.... so im sure u can wipe system before flashing a new rom....
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Something happened to the recovery that I can not figure out.. but after a couple of tries, flashing recovery thru fastboot, its working now.... and I still dont think its coz I wiped system.... I have qlways done that.... even when I update the same custon rom to a new update, I always wipe cache, dalvik, and system.... but no data and ofcourse wipe all when flashing a new rom.... when recovery worked I wiped system again and flashed a new rom and did that a couple of times... nothing wrong anymore.... so im sure u can wipe system before flashing a new rom....
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I normally wipe /System anytime I switch ROM's, too, but TWRP has done some funny things lately, and if you wiped it accidentally AFTER installing the ROM, or didn't quite install one just after, that may have done the trick
I have a big problem with my new I9505.
Today I flashed new CWM 6.0.3.6 and 4.3 GE Jamal Rom. After I flashed some mods for testing.
Then I wanted to install a clean rom, I formated in CWM every point (system, data, cache, sdcard, dalvik and dont know what else).
After I flashed again 4.3, now it do not boot. Stuck at Google boot animation.
I thought it will be fixed if I flash the stock rom via Odin (only PDA with I9505XXUBMGA_I9505OXABMGA_I9505XXUBMGA_HOME.tar.md5).
But now I stuck at Samsung Boot animation.
It is possible to boot into Recovery and Download mode.
Whats happening?
I hope somebody can help me.
Big thanks.
keynex said:
I have a big problem with my new I9505.
Today I flashed new CWM 6.0.3.6 and 4.3 GE Jamal Rom. After I flashed some mods for testing.
Then I wanted to install a clean rom, I formated in CWM every point (system, data, cache, sdcard, dalvik and dont know what else).
After I flashed again 4.3, now it do not boot. Stuck at Google boot animation.
I thought it will be fixed if I flash the stock rom via Odin (only PDA with I9505XXUBMGA_I9505OXABMGA_I9505XXUBMGA_HOME.tar.md5).
But now I stuck at Samsung Boot animation.
Whats happening?
I hope somebody can help me.
Big thanks.
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Try to get into recovery and wipe both caches and reboot. If that doesn`t work also do a data factory reset. Don`t you have a nandroid backup to fall on back too?
My nand backup is corrupt :/
keynex said:
My nand backup is corrupt :/
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Just reflash the rom again with a full wipe and after the flash wipe both caches and reboot.
Okay I figure out my nand backup is not corrupt..
If I select backup in cwm it restore system but it cant mount data.
I think the mistake is here.. /data do not exist?
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Just reflash the rom again with a full wipe and after the flash wipe both caches and reboot.
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Flashed again with wipe.. same problem..
keynex said:
Flashed again with wipe.. same problem..
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I would return to stock to get the phone running again. so:
1. Go to recovery and wipe the caches and do a data factory reset and format system.
2. Pull the battery and go into downloadmode
3. Flash a stock rom with Odin 3.04
4. Reboot, setup the phone and reroot.
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I would return to stock to get the phone running again. so:
1. Go to recovery and wipe the caches and do a data factory reset and format system.
2. Pull the battery and go into downloadmode
3. Flash a stock rom with Odin 3.04
4. Reboot, setup the phone and reroot.
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Have done again exactly like you said, still same problem (
keynex said:
Have done again exactly like you said, still same problem (
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Did you factory reset after the flash of the stock rom and also wipe the cache in stock recovery?
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Did you factory reset after the flash of the stock rom and wipe the cache in stock recovery?
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Thank god, thats it. My S4 is alive.
You are my hero, thanks :laugh:
keynex said:
Thank god, thats it. My S4 is alive.
You are my hero, thanks :laugh:
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Glad it worked out after all You don`t have to say thanks, just press thanks bro
I had exactly the same issue,except whilst i was reflashing my nandroid the phone shut down, formatted everything as one normally would using philz recovery, tried again and it failed.
Now i cannot even gain access to recovery it stays on "loading recovery" only option i suppose is to reflash stock via odin.
me too
Davies_90 said:
I had exactly the same issue,except whilst i was reflashing my nandroid the phone shut down, formatted everything as one normally would using philz recovery, tried again and it failed.
Now i cannot even gain access to recovery it stays on "loading recovery" only option i suppose is to reflash stock via odin.
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I've also experienced this on my gpe and it seems going back to stock is the best solution for doing the factory reset. I've tried doing the factory reset with both team win recovery and cwm.
Please help! I'm freaking out, thank you in advance!
gee2012 said:
I would return to stock to get the phone running again. so:
1. Go to recovery and wipe the caches and do a data factory reset and format system.
2. Pull the battery and go into downloadmode
3. Flash a stock rom with Odin 3.04
4. Reboot, setup the phone and reroot.
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Hi, I ran into the exact same problem doing exactly the same thing, but I cannot get into recovery to factory reset and wide cache. Do you know how to fix this problem? I get stuck at samsung boot animation screen as well while trying to flash back to stock.:crying:
Please Help!
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THC122 said:
Hi, I ran into the exact same problem doing exactly the same thing, but I cannot get into recovery to factory reset and wide cache. Do you know how to fix this problem? I get stuck at samsung boot animation screen as well while trying to flash back to stock.:crying:
Please Help!
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I actually was able to get into the recovery at like the 10th attempt. Thank you so much for your directions! Imma hit thanks!