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[Q] Constantly booting into CWM Recovery

Hi, this is my first root/custom ROM attempt and I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong.
I started by installing the Android SDK and following these instructions. I got into the ClockworkMod Recovery, made a backup and installed the zip in this thread. This is the start of my troubles. When I tried to reboot, it would attempt to boot, then reboot into the Samsung recovery. I could get back into the CWM Recovery fine holding the 3 buttons.
From here I've tried everything to get back into the OS. I've wiped it several, restored my backup, tried installing a custom ROM, tried installing the stock rom, and installed the stock ROM from Odin.
Now all that happens is I see the Samsung logo for about 4 seconds before CWM Recovery shows up. Every time I reboot and any time I turn on the power from taking the battery out, it's the only thing I see.
What can I do to get back on the path and get my device working again?

ODIN your device back to stock (EC05 is the latest, use the pre-rooted one)
Then continue about your life.

063_XOBX said:
ODIN your device back to stock (EC05 is the latest, use the pre-rooted one)
Then continue about your life.
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I think that I have done this. Is the .tar in this thread the right one? Because I have flashed that with Odin twice to no avail.

I had this same exact issue. Even after I Odin'd back to EC05. I ended up Odin'ing back to EB13...allowing it to boot up completely....then Odin'd to EC05. Then all worked just fine. Trust me...I was flipping **** when this happened to me so I just because trying anything and everything.

Quis89 said:
I had this same exact issue. Even after I Odin'd back to EC05. I ended up Odin'ing back to EB13...allowing it to boot up completely....then Odin'd to EC05. Then all worked just fine. Trust me...I was flipping **** when this happened to me so I just because trying anything and everything.
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Wow! This did the trick! Thanks a mil!

recovery wont stay

im having some serious issues, that render my phone essentially unusable. at this point, i just want a working phone. right now, i can get into bootloader/hboot/fastboot but when i select recovery, it reboots to the white htc evo screen, then sits there looping. the only way for me to get into recovery is if i flash a recovery via adb with fastboot, and then i can get in, and ive tried flashing a rom, which says is successful, then i tell it to reboot, it made it into the rom. but then i needed to reboot, and then it just kept looping the bootanimation. battery pull and try again, still loops animation. then i try to get into recovery via bootloader, and im back to square one, looping htc evo white screen.
any ideas??? thanks
-Alex

What recovery were you using?

What recovery are you using?
Damn beat me to it lol

amon-ra
thanks for quick replies

okay, i got myself booted into miui, using it because it is very small and flashes quickly. what should i do? should i try to boot into recovery?

aadcrasher said:
okay, i got myself booted into miui, using it because it is very small and flashes quickly. what should i do? should i try to boot into recovery?
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You may as well, if you can wipe everything, except your SD card. Try and reflash the ROM then. The only reason I asked about your recovery is it seems like the same problem people have been having with TWRP2.

roids87 said:
You may as well, if you can wipe everything, except your SD card. Try and reflash the ROM then. The only reason I asked about your recovery is it seems like the same problem people have been having with TWRP2.
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Same thing I was thinking, get outta my head lol

lol, so goto recovery, then just go down the list of things to wipe and reflash rom?

Yup wipe it all 3-5x just don't wipe sdcard or batt stats wipe: factory reset/data 5x then everything else at least 3x I always wipe everything 5x if I'm changing roms or restoring a backup

got into recovery wiped, flashed rom, and its all looking good. confused as to why it started working out of nowhere, but it seems to be good, and im fine with that lol. thanks!!

GE ROM, won't reboot

Hi,
I flashed the google edition rom a few weeks ago, all was working fine. This morning, I decided to flash a stock rom from sammobile (was this a bad idea)? I used CF autoroot and twerp custom recovery. It failed. So wiped everything, reflashed the google edition rom, but when I reboot the phone it gets stuck showing "Samsung galaxy s4" white text.
To boot it again i have to wipe data, cache and dalvik, then reflash the ROM, then qipe cache and dalvik, then it reboots. But when I turn it off then on again the whole process starts again.
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? This is the same ROM that worked faultlessly for weeks...
Thanks

Did u wait long enough, first reboot after flashing a new rom can take a while.
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richard2311 said:
Did u wait long enough, first reboot after flashing a new rom can take a while.
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Yeah, I gave it 5 minutes, but it's not even getting to the boot animation.
When I tried to flash the stock rom could that have messed something up? It said failed, then for ages after that, it kept saying "error-failed to open \data\data .... I/O error" in twrp.
To avoid that I have to wipe data seperately, reboot recovery, then flash the ROM again from scratch. Every time I reboot the phone I have to do a full wipe and flash the rom before it even boots..

dickson123 said:
Yeah, I gave it 5 minutes, but it's not even getting to the boot animation.
When I tried to flash the stock rom could that have messed something up? It said failed, then for ages after that, it kept saying "error-failed to open \data\data .... I/O error" in twrp.
To avoid that I have to wipe data seperately, reboot recovery, then flash the ROM again from scratch. Every time I reboot the phone I have to do a full wipe and flash the rom before it even boots..
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Have a read if this great guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43340522&postcount=3297

mobileguynz said:
Have a read if this great guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43340522&postcount=3297
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Ok, thanks, I'll give it a go later. I'm at work and was hoping for a solution that didn't require ODIN (work PC too locked-down )

dickson123 said:
Ok, thanks, I'll give it a go later. I'm at work and was hoping for a solution that didn't require ODIN (work PC too locked-down )
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Well depending on which stock ROM you flashed you maybe affected by the enabled SElinux issue see https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13xxnmzvyeihn00w23wcdp55terwvove

mobileguynz said:
Well depending on which stock ROM you flashed you maybe affected by the enabled SElinux issue see https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13xxnmzvyeihn00w23wcdp55terwvove
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I don't understand what the issue is though. I'm not doing anything different than I did 3 weeks ago, and yet this time it doesn't work.
It's now gotten to the stage where it won't boot at all, just sits at the white text, no boot animation.
Is it possible that flashing a stock un-rooted ROM has messed it up somehow? Technically it never flashed because it just failed immediately.

dickson123 said:
I don't understand what the issue is though. I'm not doing anything different than I did 3 weeks ago, and yet this time it doesn't work.
It's now gotten to the stage where it won't boot at all, just sits at the white text, no boot animation.
Is it possible that flashing a stock un-rooted ROM has messed it up somehow? Technically it never flashed because it just failed immediately.
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If you flashed the latest stock ROM it maybe be one with Knox and that has a secure boot loader and kernel secure Selinux Knox stops you from modifying and installing.
Try using ausdims v16 kernel or wadams Adam kernel for stock roms. Note when I flashed the last ROM waited 10 minutes and had do a wipe and reset for it to boot see last pages for discussion http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824

Need help, please!

Hi all,
Recently I've had a few troubles with flashing ROMS, to the point where I cant start my phone without it rebooting. I've been using CWM PhilZ 6.0.4.4, GT-I9505 and I did a full wipe everytime.
Originally I was on Omega 10 and decided to try out a new ROM (phone kept dying at 15% for some reason as well). Flashed PACman ROMs latest nightly and had some troubles getting past the set up as it froze every time, and when I tried rebooting it, it would simply not start. It was suggested to upgrade my recovery, so I did so from PhilZ CWM 3.0.3.3 to 3.0.4.4. Tried it again and it worked fine, but due to my own clumsiness I accidentally restored system data from Omega to PACman. Obviously it wouldn't start properly after that, reflashed again and was very careful to only restore apps (restored SMS as well as .xml). Everything was fine except a few bugs here and there, but then I rebooted it and it just wouldn't start.
After that I tried cyanogenmod, as I thought it would be more stable. Pretty much same thing happened, less bugs but when I tried rebooting it just wouldn't start.
Given up by this point, I tried reflashing Omega v10. It worked perfectly for a few hours, flashed the latest 3minit framework and ausdim kernel. The next day, my phone suddenly died at 42% and when I try to start it up it gets stuck at the Omega logo. Went into recovery, tried doing full wipe again and cant get past setup without it turning off. Furthermore, when I try to reflash, it just unpacks the zip but turns off randomly.
I'm not quite sure what to do next, I'm thinking it's my recovery not doing wipes properly since when I try to wipe dalvik it says "path not found", and if I try to reboot with recovery it says "root may have been lost, would you like to root?"
Sorry for the whole wall of text, just thought all the information would be better than not enough! If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated as I cant even access my phone currently
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Williamharv said:
Hi all,
Recently I've had a few troubles with flashing ROMS, to the point where I cant start my phone without it rebooting. I've been using CWM PhilZ 6.0.4.4, GT-I9505 and I did a full wipe everytime.
Originally I was on Omega 10 and decided to try out a new ROM (phone kept dying at 15% for some reason as well). Flashed PACman ROMs latest nightly and had some troubles getting past the set up as it froze every time, and when I tried rebooting it, it would simply not start. It was suggested to upgrade my recovery, so I did so from PhilZ CWM 3.0.3.3 to 3.0.4.4. Tried it again and it worked fine, but due to my own clumsiness I accidentally restored system data from Omega to PACman. Obviously it wouldn't start properly after that, reflashed again and was very careful to only restore apps (restored SMS as well as .xml). Everything was fine except a few bugs here and there, but then I rebooted it and it just wouldn't start.
After that I tried cyanogenmod, as I thought it would be more stable. Pretty much same thing happened, less bugs but when I tried rebooting it just wouldn't start.
Given up by this point, I tried reflashing Omega v10. It worked perfectly for a few hours, flashed the latest 3minit framework and ausdim kernel. The next day, my phone suddenly died at 42% and when I try to start it up it gets stuck at the Omega logo. Went into recovery, tried doing full wipe again and cant get past setup without it turning off. Furthermore, when I try to reflash, it just unpacks the zip but turns off randomly.
I'm not quite sure what to do next, I'm thinking it's my recovery not doing wipes properly since when I try to wipe dalvik it says "path not found", and if I try to reboot with recovery it says "root may have been lost, would you like to root?"
Sorry for the whole wall of text, just thought all the information would be better than not enough! If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated as I cant even access my phone currently
Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk
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Seems to me that you are having battery issues. You might need to get a replacement. If that doesn't work you could try flashing a pre-knox ROM though ODIN 3.04. This would mean starting from scratch, but it could be your solution.
Quick question. Are you downloading the ROMs with your phone or downloading them with your computer then moving them to your phone via usb? because it might be your pc's/usb fault.

I also think there's a problem with your battery, it might need to be replaced.

ebahena said:
Seems to me that you are having battery issues. You might need to get a replacement. If that doesn't work you could try flashing a pre-knox ROM though ODIN 3.04. This would mean starting from scratch, but it could be your solution.
Quick question. Are you downloading the ROMs with your phone or downloading them with your computer then moving them to your phone via usb? because it might be your pc's/usb fault.
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Thanks for the quick reply! Would the battery explain why my ROMS wouldn't start though? Such as how Omega got stuck at the logo. I will try using my friend's battery, or just keeping the phone on charge whilst doing it and see how that works.
Im sending them through Usb currently, is there any other way to get it on my phone as I can't turn it on to send it over wifi :/
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Whenever you flash stock tar through Odin, the phone will restart by itself and wipe cache. After it does this, you should factory wipe and no more bootloop, or soft bricks. I would start from scratch if i were you. If you have working custom recovery installed., I would go in and do a format, not a wipe, but format the sdcard and restart into download mode and flash stock tar, cf auto root, and then flash a custom recovery. And then decide what rom to flash.

norml said:
Whenever you flash stock tar through Odin, the phone will restart by itself and wipe cache. After it does this, you should factory wipe and no more bootloop, or soft bricks. I would start from scratch if i were you. If you have working custom recovery installed., I would go in and do a format, not a wipe, but format the sdcard and restart into download mode and flash stock tar, cf auto root, and then flash a custom recovery. And then decide what rom to flash.
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Thank you for the reply i just got home so I'll try this soon, would it be risky though since my battery and/or cable may be damaged, meaning if it turns off during flashing stock, I'll get a hard brick?
Update: just reflashed Omega whilst it was on a charger and it actually worked.
Does this suggest that the battery is damaged?

Sounds to me like a definite battery problem.
Samsung recalled batteries with a serial number starting with BD. have a look and check your battery mate.
Also check it's not swollen
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Obagleyfreer said:
Sounds to me like a definite battery problem.
Samsung recalled batteries with a serial number starting with BD. have a look and check your battery mate.
Also check it's not swollen
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I just checked my battery, it does start with BD, and it does appear to be somewhat swollen.. I haven't noticed it before :l Could I just return it to Samsung for a replacement, without going back to stock ROM? I'm currently in Australia, haven't really seen a Samsung support center anywhere nearby.
Update: got my hands on a new battery, everything seems to be working great now. Flashed paranoid android, no reboots or any other problems.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped

[Q] Google screen hangtime

I apologize if there is a thread for this but if it exists, I cant find it.
My nexus 4 lags for 5 minutes on Google screen, THEN still boots. I also have no wifi... Even after reflashing boot img, and doing a full wipe
I recently messed up my CWM recovery, and was stuck on stock. I was able to fix it, reflashed CWM using abd and fastboot, everything was successful. Ever since, when my phone loads, it stays on the Google screen for 5 minutes, before it ever starts the rom bootup. This is not just a specific rom, its even happening on stock ROM. My phone does boot, so this is just a OCD fix now, but a 7-10 minute boot for my phone... is kinda crazy. Does anyone have a solution?

xtjx09 said:
I apologize if there is a thread for this but if it exists, I cant find it.
My nexus 4 lags for 5 minutes on Google screen, THEN still boots.
I recently messed up my CWM recovery, and was stuck on stock. I was able to fix it, reflashed CWM using abd and fastboot, everything was successful. Ever since, when my phone loads, it stays on the Google screen for 5 minutes, before it ever starts the rom bootup. This is not just a specific rom, its even happening on stock ROM. My phone does boot, so this is just a OCD fix now, but a 7-10 minute boot for my phone... is kinda crazy. Does anyone have a solution?
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Try dirty flashing (only wipe cache and dalvik cache) your exact ROM.

abaaaabbbb63 said:
Try dirty flashing (only wipe cache and dalvik cache) your exact ROM.
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I will try but I dont think its gonna fix it... worth a shot. But I also found out I have no sound... I'm kinda getting worried here.